Courtesy of Anders Carlsson

> Has anyone figured out a bill of materials for the PPIDE mini-board?

Not sure about a bill of materials, but previously I concluded from the schematics and board layout that you need:

1x 74LS14 or equivalent

1x 14-pin narrow socket

1x 26-pin header (13x2) or ditto male IDC connector for parallel 1x 40-pin header (20x2) or ditto male IDC connector for IDE 1x 100 nF regular capacitor 1x LED 1x 470 ohm resistor 1x 4-pin power connector 1x 2-pin header for jumper JP1 1x 3-pin header for jumper K1

JP1 should be jumpered for CF devices that get power from IDE, leave it open if you have an hard drive that gets external power.

K1 determines usage of pin 25 on the parallel port. Jumper it to pins 1-2 if you have an old N8VEM V1 (GND), jumper it to pins 2-3 if you have a current N8VEM V2 (+5V). The 4-pin power connector is only needed to be used with N8VEM V1.

If you only intend to use the PPIDE with a newer board and know whether you'll use CF or IDE hard drive, I suppose you can solder said locations without installing jumpers, and perhaps not install a power connector?

There is also a file ppide.lst that matches what I wrote above, although in a machine readable text format.

Best regards

Anders Carlsson (who soldered up a PPIDE a few months ago but still hasn't got to test it yet)