The ROM Cartridge/slot kit is now available

[Jon Langseth]

New on Tindie is the ROM Cartridge kit, as mentioned in the post about the digital I/O card:

The LiNC80 SBC1 has an on-board connector designed to connect to a card-edge connector for rapid and accessible swapping of ROM. The ROM Cartridge kit  enables the use of the ROM Slot connector, letting you swap your own ROM content quickly and easily by using ROM Cartridges. The kit consists of ROM Card, optionally a ZIF socket or DIL socket, an adapter PCB with mounting holes, a 30-pin 805-series card edge connector, one 2×15 pin 2.54mm pin header, two 30-pin female IDC connectors, and a 30-wide ribbon cable.

The ROM Card/cartridge is designed to be large enough to comfortably insert and remove. It has a 28pin location for either a direct soldered or socketed ROM chip, and a central mounting hole for encased cartridges. The two two-position jumper locations allow for any ROM chip size between 16 and 64kByte, taking advantage of the LiNC80 ROM Bank select signals for ROM sizes above 16kByte. If your ROM application fits in a 4k or 8k chip, it’s naturally no problem to use chips of those sizes, as the pinout on the connector is JEDEC compliant.

The Tindie product/shop page is at https://www.tindie.com/products/linc/linc80-rom-cartridge-kit/

The product page on linc.no for the ROM Cartridge kit at http://linc.no/products/linc80-rom-cartdrige-slot-kit/

The schematic and board-layout files are available at https://github.com/linc80/SBC1-ROMCartridge

The assembly manual can be downloaded from http://linc.no/dl/linc80/doc/ROM-card-adapter-Assemblyguide%20v%200.1.pdf