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TomVDB on Sept 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Z80 computer wirewrapped on perfboard

My first ASIC was validated like that. A much larger wire wrapped board with a bunch of FPGAs.

It only worked if you gently pushed with your hands into the wires, but it was sufficient to discover a bunch of bugs (that should have been found in simulation, but we were total cowboys back then.)

analog31 on Sept 1, 2018 [–]

Your hands may have created some subtle RC time constants that killed a race condition.

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