Project: HDMI/DVI out for STFM

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Can you measure the voltage from the PSU 0v to 0v on the HDMI connector ( or somewhere as far up the board as possible) ?
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exxos wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:19 am Can you measure the voltage from the PSU 0v to 0v on the HDMI connector ( or somewhere as far up the board as possible) ?
I did not get to this last night. CPU failed on my PC. Am not doing well with several PSU issues last month and now CPU failure this month.

I should get time to look at this tonight.
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Sorry to hear about your CPU Icky. That really sucks.

Also I ran my machine on an ATX PSU at 5.06v for over fifteen minutes, but unfortunately didn't experience a single bad read. Ah, well.
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I measured a differential of around -4 millivolts between the FPGA board to the chassis ground (measured off the big electrolytic near the power supply). Not too bad considering the whole mod draws a lot of current (over 300mA).
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I think tuxie's comment was more meant to measure the dynamic ground offset (not the DC offset). I.e. he was saying the same as me in https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 360#p15179.
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Smonson wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:00 am I measured a differential of around -4 millivolts between the FPGA board to the chassis ground (measured off the big electrolytic near the power supply). Not too bad considering the whole mod draws a lot of current (over 300mA).
That doesn't sound right.. With a scope across grounds you should see ringing and all sorts of chaos likely going +/- 1V or so.

This is a example of VCC rail.. (images taken a couple years ago)

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and a gnd spike..

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This was across the CPU pretty much, so like 1cm of track. Once it gets to like a foot long trace, welcome to crazy town!

I don't know how immune FPGA are, put some inputs can "latch up" if the voltage is to high or low on a input.
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Oh, right. That was a DC offset. On the scope I saw occasional noise on the HDMI board ground of up to about +/- 650mV relative to PSU ground. But that shouldn't affect the level shifting buffer direction signal, I think, as it's localised to the mod board only.
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Smonson wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:19 am Oh, right. That was a DC offset. On the scope I saw occasional noise on the HDMI board ground of up to about +/- 650mV relative to PSU ground. But that shouldn't affect the level shifting buffer direction signal, I think, as it's localised to the mod board only.
As a mad idea, could you double the length of your ribbon cable on your board and try tests again ? Make sure PSU is at 5V or even 5.2V.
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Will do! ...soon, but not for a couple of nights, I have my work Christmas party tomorrow.

I can't actually set the voltage - my bench power supply can only supply 1.5A and the ST is just a bit too much for it. So I just have the ATX power supply which is fixed.
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Smonson wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:20 pm Will do! ...soon, but not for a couple of nights, I have my work Christmas party tomorrow.
Ah, be sure to bring your ST then and run this:

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