FPGA-Companion

[vossstef]

@RetroSilicon could you please let me know what corrections you did in the BL616 fw or even better push your companion branch 'as is' to your own clone repo so that i could already start with some corrections in the main branch. Thx !

[RetroSilicon]

Hi @vossstef , sorry for the late reply — I’ve had limited time for this project recently.
I’ll go through my changes today and clean things up a bit (some of them are still a bit messy / not working properly).
I’ll let you know once I’ve pushed my sources.

[RetroSilicon]

Hi @vossstef, I’ve uploaded the FPGA Companion (and CherryUSB) files along with my updates.
If you need any clarifications or details, feel free to ask!

[vossstef]

@RetroSilicon, many thanks ! Your work is really a rather big change and extension of the existing functionality. Didn't expeced that even changes of the CherryUSB are needed. Have to check with Till how to make use of both Pico and BL616 environment.

For your info. I updated a branch of our Bouaffalo SDK to CherryUSB 1.5.3 (you need to select it as branch and no included in main). Newer SDK is simply not working under Windows (Linux didn't check yet) and i gave up as there seeme to be weekly correction attempts.

[RetroSilicon]

Hi @vossstef, thanks for the information.
The changes I made to CherryUSB were driven by the way the connected device is initialized — specifically, the sequence of queries sent to the device to switch it into the correct mode. I will continue refining this part of the code.
By the way, do you (you and Till) have a Discord server or channel to make communication easier?

[vossstef]

Hi @RetroSilicon , maybe we will have that in the near future. Will let xou know

[vossstef]

We have a Discord Channel now: MiSTle

maybe you want to join?

[RetroSilicon]

Great news, thanks. Could you please send me the link? I can’t find the channel by its name.

[vossstef]

https://discord.gg/RBkvHK6n3