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mingos-commodoreblog · 5 months

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UNAmiga FPGA - Updating AmigaOS and Tools…

#commodore #retro #amiga #vintage #classic #retrogaming #videogames #fpga #unamiga #retrocomputing

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kawaoneechan · 11 months

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Hot take: far as I'm concerned, recreating an old system with an FPGA does not make it "not emulation".

You're still making the thing run on other, newer hardware. You're just not doing it in software. The FPGA is still just pretending very hard to be a SNES or what have you. The main difference is that there's not an entire operating system running underneath the emulator. It's not even running on the bare metal -- it is the bare metal, so there's a significant lack of overhead and with a good design input lag can be all but eliminated.

But it's still just an emulator.

After all, this

is not this

any more than this is

Now, you might argue seeing that SNES mainboard closeup that there's a one-chip SNES too and that doesn't look anything like that picture either. True. It's called a one-chip because they took all the component parts of the CPU and PPU pair, and stuck it into a single chip. Not reimplementing, but restructuring.

#fpga #emulation #hot take

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oldguydoesstuff · 1 year

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Throwback to last year, when I built this custom 9-bit computer from scratch using an FPGA board.

Why? Mostly to see if I could do it. I had the good fortune to be part of several hardware teams designing computers when I worked for Digital Equipment Corp, but never directly in the CPU group. So I wanted to try CPU design out for myself finally, and see if I remembered any of those classes from way back in college. (I didn't as it turned out, had to re-learn a bunch of stuff)

Why 9 bits? To be weird. And also, because it prevented me from reusing anything that already existed, and so it forced me to do many common things all over from ground zero, like creating my own VGA video driver circuits, designing a new (octal) instruction set, and writing a custom boot loader and assembler.

Anyway I got it to the point where the machine could display Mario, here he is in glorious 9-bit color!

#hardware #computer design #fpga #retro computing #hw hacking #mario

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pepperoni-airplane · 9 months

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Inscribing magic crystals (writing Verilog) to perform a summoning ritual (fix network interface).

#fpga #wizardposting #wizard posting

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learnandgrowcommunity · 6 months

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andmaybegayer · 2 years

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Bought an FPGA for practice and then I won (what I thought was) a long-shot auction on another FPGA so long story short I got two FPGA's for the price of one and a half FPGA's. AMD/Xilinx Spartan 3E and Intel/Altera Cyclone V.

You can tell one is more for hardware engineers and one is more for software developers because the software developer one doesn't let you touch the core to tell how hard it's running. That and I guess it's got an integrated ARM dual core processor in there somewhere but definitely leaning on the first fact more for guidance here.

#fpga #electronics #project 0 is to load some example code #project 1 is a VGA graphics card

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fpgakey · 9 months

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mechafinch · 11 months

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check out my lil fpga microcomputer project ive put way too much time into it and its nowhere near done

it's part of my wider 'NotSoTiny' project, a 16 bit ISA taking after the 8086. The name comes from the original plan to use a TinyFPGA BX, but it never shipped so I switched to a FireAnt.

on the left side with the mess of jumpers is 1 MB of ram (the fpga has ~15kB onboard), and on the right are a couple of SPI driven displays. The TFT up top has a microSD card slot on its SPI bus too. Some buttons will go in the center.

now to just make the actual cpu...

there're three github repos, one for the architecture, which has the documentation, emulator, and assembler, one for the HDL side of this project, and one for a compiler for a language i made for the purpose of making a compiler (at least when i get around to putting it on github)

#notsotiny #fpga #homebrew

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shf2illss · 1 year

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#Future Electronics #(Power #MCUs #FPGA #LCDs #Wireless #Lighting #electronic components #Capacitors #Film Capacitors #Analog #development tools #electromechanical

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coinoperatedgadget · 1 year

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Rectangle Gadgets I've been using for Smash I built myself! Its got pretty controllable gamer RGB <3

I open sourced the code for those interested. All done in VHDL on a cheap $13 FPGA board:

#smash bros #gadgets #gamecube controller #fight stick #diy #fpga #vhdl #smash ultimate

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mrmegamanfan · 2 years

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Analogue Pocket cores updated automatically!

#analogue pocket #analogue #retro gaming #FPGA #Youtube

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mingos-commodoreblog · 2 months

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C-Term U64 2024 for the Ultimate64 - Up to 38400 Baud and 48 MHz

#commodore #retro #c64 #vintage #classic #cbm #u64 #ultimate64 #fpga #bbs

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govindhtech · 19 days

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Agilex 5 E-Series with Power-Optimized Edge Performance

Intel Agilex 5 FGPA

Agilex 5 E-Series

Altera’s latest mid-range FPGAs, the Agilex 5 FPGAs E-Series, are now supported by the recently released Quartus Prime Software v24.1, which can be downloaded right now. Intel are happy to announce that it is now simpler than ever and completely free of charge to take use of the unmatched capability of Altera’s Agilex 5 FPGAs E-Series with the introduction of the state-of-the-art Quartus Prime Software from Altera.

Intel Agilex 5

Free Licence: Get rid of obstacles. With the help of Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software v24.1, you may use the newest E-Series devices at no cost, enabling you to innovate beyond limits!

Streamlined Design Flow: Use Quartus Prime Software to see the smooth integration of intellectual property (IP)-Centric design flow. Their easily customizable design samples streamline the process of getting started so you can concentrate on what really matters your innovative ideas.

New Embedded Processing Capabilities: Make use of the Simics simulator-supported dual-core ARM Cortex-A76 and dual-core ARM Cortex-A55 of the Agilex 5 SoC FPGA, the industry’s first asymmetric processing complex. Additionally, Agilex 5 FPGAs may be combined with the feature-rich, performance- and space-optimized Nios V soft-processor for smaller embedded FPGA applications. Additionally, they collaborate with a number of partners who provide a top-notch suite of tools to improve your FPGA and embedded development experience, including Arm, Wind River, Siemens, Ashling, MathWorks, and many more.

Comprehensive Intellectual Property (IP) Portfolio: With their tried-and-true IP portfolio for Agilex 5 FPGAs, many of which are free, you may shorten the time it takes to market. Reduce the amount of circuitry used and make design timing closure easier with hard IP solutions for PCI Express, Ethernet, and memory protocols, which also support LPDDR5. With PCS’s Ethernet 10G MAC, you can guarantee deterministic and synchronised communication, enhanced by Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) features.

This version includes the Video and Vision Processing (VVP) portfolio IP for Agilex 5 FPGAs, which enables the entire portfolio of video solutions, as well as additional IPs supporting MIPI D-PHY and MIPI CSI-2. Begin developing your Agilex 5 FPGA designs and rely on additional validated advanced features like JESD204C IP, ORAN IP, LDPC IP, CPRI, and eCPRI among others.

Unprecedented Capabilities: Altera FPGAs may be programmed with cutting-edge capabilities like the following using the Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software v24.1.

Agilex 5 datasheet

Dashboard for Quartus Software Exploration (Preproduction)

With distinct instances of Quartus Prime software, numerous projects running concurrently may be easily coordinated and the compilation and timing results can be seen.

Fresh Features for Compilation: Generation flow of precompiled components (PCCs)Utilising the new precompiled component (PCC) generation flow during compilation, shorten the time it takes to compile synthesis.Start the Simulator using the Quartus Prime GUI.Effortlessly start simulations straight from the Quartus Prime GUI by using the handy “Tools ➤ Run Simulation” menu item. Remove the need for extra procedures to streamline your workflow and save time.

Features and Improvements of Synthesis

Use the RTL Linter Tool to convert older RTL files to Verilog/VHDL standards with ease, optimise RAM inference for better speed and resource use, and reduce warnings in error-free RTL modules to increase readability while developing.

Improved Timing Indicator

Gain more flexibility in timing analysis and SDC scripting with new scripting options; guarantee design integrity with sign-off capabilities for particular combinational loops; and learn more about timing characteristics with enhanced Chip Planner visualisation of asynchronous clock domain crossings (CDCs).

Innovations in Advanced Link Analysers

Link Builder: Use the brand-new Link Builder tool to quickly and easily build high-speed serial connections. Streamline the connection creation procedure by automatically generating schematics and importing channels and devices.

High DPI Monitor Assistance: Benefit from improved readability and display quality thanks to GUI scaling for high DPI displays and automated DPI recognition. Enjoy enhanced usability and user experience.

Enhanced Data Viewer: With improvements to the Data Viewer, analyse forward error correction (FEC) code word faults more effectively. Error outcomes may be easily interpreted and analysed for more efficient error correction techniques.

Enhancements to Simulation Time:

Easy-to-use UI for automated import of devices and channels and schematics. Agilex 7 IP offers faster simulation times with the updated Q run and FEC models.

Qualities:

R-Tile: Transaction Layer (TL) multi-channel DMA IP (AXI) up to Gen5 x16 For flexibility in incorporating third-party PCIe Switch IP, use the bypass mode. A new design example for Gen5 x4 endpoint configuration is also provided.

F-Tile: Utilising FastSIM to reduce simulation time in PIPE mode and providing Ubuntu driver support for all sample designs.increased compatibility for up to 64 embedded endpoints.For greater coverage, the Debug Tool Kit (DTK) was added to the switch IP.

Become a Part of the Community: Hua Xue, VP & GM Software Engineering, remarked, “Intel’re excited to offer Quartus Prime Software v24.1, a crucial milestone in FPGA design.”

“Now, engineers everywhere can easily access the unmatched potential of Agilex 5 FPGAs E-Series.” Quartus’s simplified design process and these cutting-edge technologies allow engineers to reach their full potential for innovation. With their state-of-the-art processing capabilities, Agilex 5 devices transform embedded FPGA applications. These are enhanced by Quartus’s vast IP portfolio, which includes a variety of solutions like Ethernet, PCI Express, memory protocols like LPDDR5, support for MIPI D-PHY, CSI-2, and a suite of video solutions, among many other IPs.

The Quartus Exploration Dashboard offers a user-friendly interface and optimization recommendations, which further improve the design exploration process. Intel’re pushing both the simplicity of use and the fast compiler technologies with Quartus v24.1’s open access to E-Series FPGAs and a simplified design pipeline to enable engineers and innovators to unleash their creativity like never before.”

Intel Agilex 5 price

Normally marketed to corporations and incorporated into bigger systems, the Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs do not have a set pricing that is made accessible to the general public. A number of variables affect the pricing, including:

Model specifics: The Agilex 5 family has two distinct series (D and E) with differing logic cell characteristics and capacities. Models with additional features will cost more.

Volume: If you buy in large quantities, you may be able to negotiate a lower price with distributors or directly with Intel.

Distributor: Price structures may vary significantly throughout distributors.