Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>With VHDL you write your hardware with software. Then there are two ways
>>of writing programs in VHDL, one is for testing purposes, which works
>>pretty much like your emulator written in c or c++, but it runs
>>concurrently and it has got timers, etc...
> 
> 
> Sounds really cool... I gotta check this out... (Oh yeah - I said that
> yesterday too, didn't I? I'm a busy person sadly....)

If you are based in London, then try to check this bookcase shops around 

I got one on verilog and it comes with the foundation tools. Then you 
need to buy the actual programmer device and the appropriate FPGA chip 
for you project.

>>Once you compile it, your
>>compiler will generate logic gates interconnected to generate your
>>circuit. Then you just transfer that to an FPGA IC and that's it. you
>>are done.
> 
> 
> So you mean if I buy the right stuff I can actually have running silicon???
> 
> (Well, actually it's Germanium these days isn't it? Or is it? I have no idea
> really...)

Yep, you can have the whole NES system on a single chip. (this includes 
the graphics processor or PPU (pixels processing unit) as it is called.)

All the best

Fidel.

Post a reply to this message