T&L Publications

I've only just discovered this thread. I'm the author of the mistralXG project. Areas 1 & 2 (and several others) were indicated on the original schematic I provided to N&V when I submitted the article. Unfortunately, they were removed by the magazine's staff during layout. You can still get ...

Schematic updates and a PCB design for mistralXG are now available on my own website http://www.grapevyne.com/pic.projects.

Steve.

While continuing work on mistralXG, I found a bug that means the device doesn't always reset cleanly when power is applied. Unfortunately, the neatest solution is a minor change to the bootloader code, which cannot be updated over USB, you'll need to use a device programmer to burn the code into you...

For some reason, the bootloader code for the mistralXG project (MistralBoot.hex) and the Eagle schematic have been omitted from the download zipfiles. I have asked the N&V people to make them available. While the bitmap schematic is adequate for constructing the project, mistralXG will not work ...