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Flashpoint modules work with PropGCC and Catalina C compilers.

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See this:   Guide to Catalina with FlashPoint

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RamPage 2 (RP2) Now Available!

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RP2 comprises two ST26VF016 SQI Flash chips (32 MBit total) and two 23LC1024 (2 MBit total) SQI SRAM chips sharing an 8-bit data bus for extremely fast data access.

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Plugs into either Quickstart using the 40-pin header one one edge or Propeller Platform using the 16+4-pin header on the other side.

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Schematic in pdf format

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Price is only $25 with free USPS domestic shipping.

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To order, just  Email Me with your order (click button to email to ray@rayslogic.com). 

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Here is a test program (basic driver) for RP2 

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FlashPoint Mini (FPM) Now Available!

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Comprises one  SST25VF032B Flash chip (32 MBit) and one 23LC1024 (1 MBit) SRAM chip, both wired for SPI mode.

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Chips share SI and SO lines, but have individual clock and chip select pins.

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Compatible with 8-pin header on the VGA Graphics Shield

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Schematic in pdf format

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Here is a basic driver and test program for FPM

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Price is only $10 with free domestic USPS shipping.

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To order, just  Email Me with your order (click button to email to ray@rayslogic.com).

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FlashPoint SuperQuad (FPS) 

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FPS is a combination of hardware and software for adding 2 MB (16 Mbit) of high-speed memory to the Propeller (or other microcontrollers).

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The hardware is a small adapter for the SST26VF016 SuperFlash® chip with Quad I/O.

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It is smaller and faster than an SD card, but is internally very similar to SD.  Just like all flash devices, the code to read from FPS is very simple and fast, but writing to FPS is more complex and slower.

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Comes with an 8-pin header that you must solder on.  If you can't want to solder it on yourself, just let us know and we'll do it for you.

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FPS uses 8 pins:  2 for power,  2 for control, and 4 for data

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Multiple FPS modules can be combined for 8, 12, 16-bit or even wider data busses.

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Note:  Drivers currently only support 4-bit operation.
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The current drivers allow you to use Prop pins to provide power, if desired, so that you can simply plug FPS into boards like the Parallax Demo Board without using jumper wires.

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Compatible with 8-pin header on the VGA Graphics Shield

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Price:  $4.99 each with  free USPS shipping.

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To order, just  Email Me with your order (click button to email to ray@rayslogic.com).

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Software: 

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Basic Spin Driver:

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Notes about current SPIN driver: 

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You must edit the driver to tell it which Prop pins you are using.
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Only supports erasure of entire chip, not individual sectors.
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Destination of write must be in the erased state.
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Only supports writes to addresses that begin on a page boundary (multiple of 256).  I.e., if the address is in hex, such as $000000, the last two digits of the destination address must be 0.  (future drivers will let you write to any address)
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The valid address space is $000000 to $1FFFFF.  If you read past $1FFFFF, the address simply rolls over. 
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For flexibility, the data pins can be connected to Prop pins in reverse order, the just have to be all in a row.  (But, assembly drivers will probably not allow this.)
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Spin HUB transfer:  This code copies an embedded file to the Flash chip.  It demonstrates how to interface with the  SPIN FPS driver.

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SD transfer:  This code copies a file from an SD card onto the Flash chip using the SPIN FPS driver.

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TV Bitmap Viewer:

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Show a Windows bitmap (8-bit, up to 156x192 pixels) on your TV

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Screenshot:   

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It's a 3-step process to show a bitmap:

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Step 1:  Copy the Windows bitmap to FPS.  One way is to copy the file from an SD card using the SD transfer utility

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Step 2:  Copy and convert the bitmap to raw image data in a separate spot on the FPS using the bitmap decoder utility.

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Step 3:  Show the image using the FPS TV Bitmap Viewer.

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Bitmap Info:

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Bitmaps currently need to be in 256 color (8-bit palette) format. 

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It's best if they use my special palette so that the colors can be coverted to TV colors very quickly and without approximation. 

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Example Images:

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Parrot, Child in Basket:   Both are 152x192 and created in Photoshop with error diffusion and the special palette.
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Image 2:  Flags of the USA.  This is a 152x6192 image of all 50 flags of the USA meant to be scrolled vertically.
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Permissions:  You may use the code in your projects and/or products so long as the copyright notice is included and you aren't selling products that directly compete with Flash Point SuperQuad or Flash Point RamPage.

 

 

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Flash Point RamPage (FPRP):   

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FPR is a combination of hardware and software for adding high-speed memory to the Propeller (or other microcontrollers).

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Combines the 2 MB of Quad-I/O flash (same as SuperQuad) with 128 kB (1 Mbit) of SRAM.  Flash and RAM share the same 4-bit bus.

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The hardware is a small adapter for the SST26VF016 SuperFlash® chip with Quad I/O and 4X of the 23K256 SRAM chips.

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FPRP is about the size of an SD card but both flash and RAM components are much faster than SD.

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Price:  $15.99 each with free USPS shipping.

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Software: 

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These initial drivers are modified version of the SuperQuad software (see above).  But, these ones copy the resultant bitmap to SRAM and show the image from SRAM instead of from flash.

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Hub transfer:  Copies embedded file to flash and/or SRAM  (Version for C3)

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SD transfer:  Copies file from SD to flash

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Bitmap Decode:  Decodes bitmap data and copies to SRAM

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TV Bitmap Viewer:  Views decoded bitmap data from SRAM on TV 

bulletPermissions:  You may use the code in your projects and/or products so long as the copyright notice is included and you aren't selling products that directly compete with Flash Point SuperQuad or Flash Point RamPage.