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68K FPGA Question Posted on 28-Nov-2018 20:23:02
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| If someone were to put a 68000 cpu on a FPGA, would there be enough space left for Fast Ram?
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 28-Nov-2018 20:38:58
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I would not think of Fast Ram as something to fit inside an FPGA. I would think of Fast RAM or Chip RAM as something outside of the FPGA, as DDR perhaps. There is some amount of memory in many FPGA chips, but generally small bits to be used as FIFO buffers and very small code things for microcontrollers like MicroBlaze or NIOS, or perhaps as some logic thing where inputs are really addresses for the intended data for outputs.
I believe that all the FPGA-Arcade, Minimig, Vampyre, MISTer, Suska (Atari) etc. boards have memory chips external to the FPGA, even when the CPU is a softcore internal to FGPA. Last edited by billt on 28-Nov-2018 at 08:47 PM.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 28-Nov-2018 21:43:56
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Trekiej wrote: If someone were to put a 68000 cpu on a FPGA, ...
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Trekiej wrote: would there be enough space left for Fast Ram?
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There should be enough space left around the FPGA for Fast RAM.Last edited by OneTimer1 on 28-Nov-2018 at 09:45 PM.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 28-Nov-2018 23:06:07
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Sure I know that there are 68K FPGA cpu's. It would be cool to have at least 1 MB of ram in an FPGA and external fast ram. The speed could be quite fast. I think.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 29-Nov-2018 1:33:18
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On the Vampire one big use of the FPGA's on-chip memory is for the 68080 CPU caches. On the V2 models that means 32KB data and 16KB instruction cache. This is an improvement over the 68060 8KB/8KB setup. On the upcoming V4 I don't know if the caches are being enlarged.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 29-Nov-2018 4:53:29
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I'd be more interested in using any extra space on an FPGA for Amiga custom chips, since RAM is a commodity item and Amiga custom chips are not.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 29-Nov-2018 5:38:08
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I will go with that. I need the A500 version. @bison
Okay, I am eyeballing a TF530 board. I wonder if it has a place for Kick Start. I need to read some more on it.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 29-Nov-2018 15:05:16
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| @Trekiej Just use an external "ROM" (EEPROM of some sort) for kickstart and use external RAM, SRAM if limited memory is fine (expensive but easy to work with) and DRAM (DDR3 probably) otherwise.
Costs increase quickly with increased internal SRAM and most resources of the FPGA would be wasted anyway.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 29-Nov-2018 20:52:14
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Thanks, I guess an FPGA accelerator that fits the 68K socket will be the solution.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 29-Nov-2018 22:12:31
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It would be cool to have at least 1 MB of ram in an FPGA and external fast ram.
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FPGAs have logic cells you can use them for the CPU, for glue logic or for RAM.
If you use them as RAM you will waste precious resources you can buy elsewhere, especially if you still want to attach external RAM.
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 29-Nov-2018 22:49:46
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 30-Nov-2018 12:13:15
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| @OneTimer1 All but the smallest FPGAs out there have dedicated memory blocks however those are costly. For example to have 512KiB RAM on an Xilinx FPGA the cheapest chip is listed at $110 on Digikey, an Artix-7 XC7A100T. The cheapest series (Spartan-7) have a maximum of 480KiB.
Of course moving to the more expensive segment (Kintex-7) one can get 2MiB+ internal RAM (plus some spare) for just $1600 (XC7K355T). |
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 14-Apr-2019 22:34:52
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Are there any FPGA computers being sold in a Micro ATX form factor?
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 15-Apr-2019 13:03:26
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Are there any FPGA computers being sold in a Micro ATX form factor?
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As far as I know, MicroATX is much bigger than what most FPGA motherboards need. There are no boards to plug in to them other than basic Ethernet or WiFi therefore there are no card slots. Also they often have no need for DIMM or SODIMM sockets since they are fully RAM expanded at the start. |
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 15-Apr-2019 18:26:39
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Are there any FPGA computers being sold in a Micro ATX form factor?
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There is (was) the Mini-ITX MiniMig Version 2.0: http://www.illuwatar.se/project_pages/minimig2/minimig.htm
But the cheapest currently available Amiga Clone using a FPGA is Mister: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
chipset variants : OCS, ECS, AGA chipRAM : 0.5MB - 2.0MB slowRAM : 0.0MB - 1.5MB fastRAM : 0.0MB - 24MB CPU core : 68000, 68010, 68020 kickstart : 1.2 - 3.1 (256kB, 512kB & 1MB kickstart ROMs currently supported) HRTmon with custom registers mirror floppy disks : 1-4 floppies (supports ADF floppy image format), with normal & turbo speeds hard disks : 1-2 hard disk images (supports whole disk images, partition images, using whole SD card and using SD card partition) video standard : PAL / NTSC supports normal & scandoubled video output (15kHz / 30kHz) - can be used with a monitor or a TV with a SCART cable peripherals : real Amiga mice, real Amiga joysticks, USB keyboards, USB mice, USB gamepads, MIDI in / out could potentially support anything that can be connected to USB (ethernet, RTC, USB Flash, ...)
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 15-Apr-2019 21:39:46
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| @OneTimer1 What was the name of the A500 mini-itx or micro ATX?
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Re: 68K FPGA Question Posted on 15-Apr-2019 21:45:49
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