Zilog Z8 Encore XP help

[Mark Harriss]

Hi People,
I recently bought a Z8 Encore XP
microcontrolled dev kit and I'm having
proglems with establishing a connection with
the board itself so I can program the Flash.

i'm using a USB smartcable/dongle to connect
to the board but I'm having trouble finding
setup documentation for jumper settings on the
development board

Can anyone give a few pointers to relevant
docs or directly help me?.

Regards
Mark H

 

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Hi People,
I recently bought a Z8 Encore XP
microcontrolled dev kit and I'm having
proglems with establishing a connection with
the board itself so I can program the Flash.

i'm using a USB smartcable/dongle to connect
to the board but I'm having trouble finding
setup documentation for jumper settings on the
development board

Can anyone give a few pointers to relevant
docs or directly help me?.

Regards
Mark H

 

[Bob Parker]

Please let us know how you went. Me and two mates bought those kits
(the 8 pin ones) but we haven't had time to properly play around with
them yet. It looks like a nice micro.

Regards,
Bob


Mark Harriss <billy@blartco.co.uk> wrote:

Hi People,
I recently bought a Z8 Encore XP
microcontrolled dev kit and I'm having
proglems with establishing a connection with
the board itself so I can program the Flash.

i'm using a USB smartcable/dongle to connect
to the board but I'm having trouble finding
setup documentation for jumper settings on the
development board

Can anyone give a few pointers to relevant
docs or directly help me?.

Regards
Mark H

 

[Mark Harriss]

Bob Parker wrote:

Please let us know how you went. Me and two mates bought those kits
(the 8 pin ones) but we haven't had time to properly play around with
them yet. It looks like a nice micro.

Regards,
Bob

Will do Bob, at the moment the USB driver seems to install
properly and so does the software, there's 11 jumpers that need to
be set and the user's manual is referring to a differently numbered
set of jumpers, possibly the difference between the 28 pin kit and
the 8 pin kit. According to the readme there may be a CYGWIN/ZDSII
program conflict, a USB conflict or some kind of jumper problem.

Regards
Mark H

 

[Mark Harriss]

Ok the correct user manual is UM0187.pdf not UM0166.
With a bit of eyeballing of the schematic and the jumper
settings it all looks straightforward. The USB smartcable,
if connected as per it's labels for the bottom side of
each connector has a half twist in it which is not shown
in the kit photos of it connected up so I'll have to check
that out some more.

(Found the cable manual UM0181, which is not on the CDROM as
stated) this states the connector stripe aligns with pin 1
on the connector: IOW with a half twist.

I've tried all of the README advice but I still can't get
a connection yet, must be some software settings or
something.

Regards
Mark H