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Some progress (HP 85B)
Message #1 Posted by Olivier De Smet on 27 Apr 2010, 6:30 a.m.

Hi, just some pictures for my last project.

http://sites.google.com/site/olivier2smet2/hpseries80/fpga-hp85b

Bye

      
Re: Some progress (HP 85B)
Message #2 Posted by J-F Garnier on 1 May 2010, 5:11 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Olivier De Smet

Great project, congratulation!

I see that the CPU is ok now. Let us know the next progress...

J-F

Edited: 1 May 2010, 5:25 a.m.

      
Re: Some progress (HP 85B)
Message #3 Posted by Juergen Keller on 1 May 2010, 4:11 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Olivier De Smet

Are there any technical background information?

            
Re: Some progress (HP 85B)
Message #4 Posted by Olivier De Smet on 2 May 2010, 3:01 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by Juergen Keller

My main source is the patent # 4424563 for the description of the CPU. For the system I used the Assembler manual and other HP publications.

The global structure

The CPU

I used fig. 1 of the patent to structure the fpga project :

  • schematics to structure the system
  • some verilog for ALU and Control Logic

For the global system I added a picoblaze controler to 'hypervise' the system with the serial link of the board:

  • step CPU
  • trace until PC
  • ...

But now I think I have some timing problem with the Strataflash on the Nexys2 board. Sometimes the CPU can't 'read' the rom ...

Edited: 2 May 2010, 3:05 a.m.


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