{"id":66,"date":"2006-07-22T23:56:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/2006\/07\/22\/cerfpod-good-news.html"},"modified":"2006-07-22T23:56:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T20:56:15","slug":"cerfpod-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"CerfPod good news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a reply and the \u201cnBOOT_FLASH_ENA\u201d seems to be exactly what I was hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>This is the answer I got:<br \/>\n<em> Yes, the CerfPod 255SE can boot from external NOR flash by pulling<br \/>\nthat pin low. It triggers a bit of logic on the board to remap nCS0<br \/>\nfrom the DiskOnChip to nCS0 external, then maps nCS3 (I believe) to<br \/>\nthe DiskOnChip. Then you can use the Linux DiskOnChip drivers as<br \/>\ngeneral storage (you will corrupt the DiskOnChip contents and render<br \/>\nthe board unbootable from DiskOnChip). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>So very good news it looks like. Now just need to find some suitable NOR flash device that can be acquired and design a board with it.<\/p>\n<p>Possible flash device could be Toshiba <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fi.digikey.com\/scripts\/DkSearch\/dksus.dll?PName?Name=TC58FVM7T5BTG65-ND&#038;Site=FI\">TC58FVM7T5BTG65<\/a> from Digi-Key. 128MBit flash for a reasonable price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a reply and the \u201cnBOOT_FLASH_ENA\u201d seems to be exactly what I was hoping for. This is the answer I got: Yes, the CerfPod 255SE can boot from external NOR flash by pulling that pin low. It triggers a bit of logic on the board to remap nCS0 from the DiskOnChip to nCS0 external, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skippari.net\/projects\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}