Mike Stewart flies Apollo 11 P63, lunar landing, using his new AGC monitor and his gate-exact AGC replicas. This episode is made possible by our sponsor PCBWay (https://www.pcbway.com/anniversary5sales.html, right now celebrating their 5th Anniversary, 5000 sets gifts+ free coupons giveway+ lucky draw!).
The AGC monitor replica, a key piece of AGC ground test equipment used by MIT for debugging the AGC, has been built in preparation for our upcoming next encounter with the real AGC.
Playlist of the AGC restoration series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7
Mike's FPGA AGC code and board project files are available online:
AGC FPGA Replica:
https://github.com/thewonderidiot/rotinom
AGC FPGA Test Monitor:
https://github.com/thewonderidiot/agc_monitor
Bonus: AGC Verilog Simulation
https://github.com/virtualagc/agc_simulation
Some relevant links:
Block I AGC period documentary: https://youtu.be/ndvmFlg1WmE
Inertial navigation system documentary: https://youtu.be/wD97RSpiZe0
Schematics: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html#AGC_electrical_schematics
and: https://archive.org/details/agc_handbook_jp2
Mike's AGC backplane viewer: http://apolloguidance.computer/2003100_071/pins
AGC software repo: https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc
The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk: https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ