Tony Firshman wrote:

>Doesn't the Q60 need a heatsink, or is it like that just for the
>photograph.

For the photo. Thierry had ordered a special edition with
non-glued heatsink :-) Which came in very handy, because I had
no glue pads left at the time.

Practically, the Q60 almost does not need the heatsink.
Power consumption is a lot smaller than of the 68040.
But theoretically it needs one, so it's got one.

>Interesting to see the regulator there.

Why "Interesting"?

>You should put stickers on the Lattice chips - easy to mislocate them
>otherwise.

Well I haven't been producing as many boards as you.
I immediately put the Lattice chips in the socket after
programming and - that's it.

>Is the extra chip (U30) for Q60 underneath?

Not underneath, but within :-))

The answer is the 68060 datasheet. "U30" is not an extra chip, it is just
a schematic symbol to cover the extra pins in the inner rows of the CPU
socket.

The Q60 has a few extra wires, two different LSI chips, the regulator,
an extra diode, and of course a different CPU. The other 68060 related
issues are already silently solved within the Q40 board.

(Which actually was a 68060 design as well. The idea was to offer both.)

Peter


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