FOSDEM 2024 Electronic boards production automation with KiCAD scriptsOlimex Bulgaria
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The PCB production is boring routine work, but if you do not do it properly it can easily turn into a nightmare. The different machines used in production like printers, pick and place machines, ovens, AOI, testers all run different software, different libraries, different component naming concepts. So to prepare from your Cad project all programs to run on these machines is really time consuming. Later on the machine jobs changeovers there are also source of machine operator errors. KiCad as open source project has increadible flexibility to extend your needed functionality. We did reverse engineering of our machines programming and made script which generate all production files with single click from KiCad and I will share with you our experience.
Neo6502 is computer with real W65c02 connected to RP2040 co processor which takes care for everything else: emulates the memory, interfaces the USB keyboard, interfaces to DVI/HDMI monitors, play sounds and music, drive spirits and graphics, interfaces external USB flash drive and have I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO. So Neo6502 litterally lives in the Matrix and thinks it have real peripherals attached, while this is all emulation. What makes Neo6502 modern is the possibility to use modern displays and TVs, Normal USB keyboards and Flash drives. On top of this it has access to modern interfaces like I2C and SPI which allow it to interface modern sensors, displays and other devices unleashing the Arduino like applications.
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Neo6502 is computer with real W65c02 connected to RP2040 co processor which takes care for everything else: emulates the memory, interfaces the USB keyboard, interfaces to DVI/HDMI monitors, play sounds and music, drive spirits and graphics, interfaces external USB flash drive and have I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO. So Neo6502 litterally lives in the Matrix and thinks it have real peripherals attached, while this is all emulation. What makes Neo6502 modern is the possibility to use modern displays and TVs, Normal USB keyboards and Flash drives. On top of this it has access to modern interfaces like I2C and SPI which allow it to interface modern sensors, displays and other devices unleashing the Arduino like applications.
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