Allison: 2910c version of z80

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat May 5 14:49:24 2001

Heinz mentioned the Spartan FPGAs and Allison added:
>a nice Virtex or Spartan fpga will fit a whole processor
> >with up to 1mbit or sram on chip.
>Far more interesting, out of my range of tools to do.
>Allison

Check again Allison. I've been playing around with a Spartan-II 200K gate
FPGA that is on a board built by Tony Burch <http://www.burched.com.au>
(and my experiences with it are here:
<http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/robotics/fpga>). The board and some support
stuff (SRAM, Serial/Kbd/mouse ports, etc) was less than $400 and the design
tools are *free*. You do have to take the time to learn VHDL but so far the
payoff has been worth it for me. I'm having a blast with this thing. My
"final" is a PDP-8 w/ Serial terminal (think DECMate in a single chip) with
full lights and switches. This chip can do that easily. I don't think it
can do a KL-10 but it might ...

--Chuck
Received on Sat May 05 2001 - 14:49:24 BST

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