Re: gEDA-user: gTag Status

[Stefan Petersen <spe@stacken.kth.se>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Stephen Williams wrote:

> This behavior will allow us to program the EEPROM from the micro, and
> if the EEPROM can be explicitly be disabled,  broken programs can be
> skipped, fail-safe mode entered, and we can reprogram the EEPROM. It
> is fairly important, I think. There is no reason to not support a
> surface mount EEPROM, soldered on. Why waste pennies on a socket?-)

Ok good idea explicit removing the eeprom. 

My goal is to make as much as possible surface mounted. The exception will
be a few connectors.

Stephen Williams also wrote:
> I'll let him decide that he's ready to post the schematics here. I'm
> not sure if he's planning to do a PCB layout himself or let someone
> else deal with it. I'll let him answer that one too.

The schematic is not really ready for release yet. Maybe after the weekend
(that sounds familiar from the last weekend).

About the PCB I don't know yet. I would probably be more glad if someone
else could do it. I assume you would use some of the free PCB tools.

Regards,
/spe
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