> From: Allison > FYI this is the same problem designers hit with DRAMS back 40 years ago.
This didn't ring (pun not intended) a bell for me; can you say a bit more? > From: Chuck Guzis > I'll offer a suggestion that if your SD card *must* be a significant > distance from its host Like I said, this is a pre-prototype; on the production units, there will be _no_ cable. The SD socket will be about 1-2" from the FPGA. > From: Dwight Kelvey > this behavior on my PDP-8/e where a 7474 flip flop chip was bad. The > input looked great and the output was "half baked" There's no chip at all on the driving end of the line (just that 470K resistor); we see this with the SD card _unplugged_. And we see the exact same thing on several lines. I'm still not clear, from the discussion, how exactly that nice 'square-wave' interference is happening - could it be capacitative crosstalk? (I'd have thought capacitative cross-talk would be inverted - driving a positive voltage on one 'side' of the 'capacitor' would, I would think, induce an oppposing voltage on the other. But I'm clearly no EE! :-) Noel