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Issues burning an CPU chip

By Brewchap

2 years ago



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#1 2 years ago

I am trying to update the CPU code on RBION. I used an GQ4x4 and a M27C4001 chip to write to. After installing in the pin, the pin does not boot up. Am I using the wrong chip to burn to? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help, I'm used to only burning M2716 chips for older pins.

#2 2 years ago

27c1001 is the CPU rom size.
27c4001 is the Display board rom size.

#3 2 years ago

Welp, That will do it. I just ordered some 27c1001 for future use.

Thank you for your help!

#4 2 years ago

Depending on if the upper address lines are tied high/low on the board, you can simply quadruple the image size and then burn it to your 4mbit eprom. If the upper address lines are floating on the board, you would need to either modify the board or the eprom itself to pull them high or low.

On windows:
copy /b image.bin + image.bin + image.bin + image.bin image_4x.bin
To create an image 4 times the size of the original. Then you would burn image_4x.bin to your 4mbit eprom.

#5 2 years ago
Quoted from Pwedge:

Depending on if the upper address lines are tied high/low on the board, you can simply quadruple the image size and then burn it to your 4mbit eprom. If the upper address lines are floating on the board, you would need to either modify the board or the eprom itself to pull them high or low.
On windows:
copy /b image.bin + image.bin + image.bin + image.bin image_4x.bin
To create an image 4 times the size of the original. Then you would burn image_4x.bin to your 4mbit eprom.

Oh! That means that I can still use the 27c4001 since it is a 4mbit. I got to try it

#6 2 years ago

This is very cool!! So using the above command, I can create a new file with 4 images. Then write to chip...

It works! WOW thank you for the info.

Quoted from Pwedge:

Depending on if the upper address lines are tied high/low on the board, you can simply quadruple the image size and then burn it to your 4mbit eprom. If the upper address lines are floating on the board, you would need to either modify the board or the eprom itself to pull them high or low.

Not sure how to check this, but the above command worked great.

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