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Author: | BigEd [ Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:51 am ] |
Post subject: | socz80 - Z80, MMU, caching SDRAM controller for FPGA |
Will Sowerbutts designed a system which includes a Z80 and a caching SDRAM controller - and it's all open source. Quote: [Will] wrote a 128MHz Z80-based retro microcomputer which runs on a Papilio Pro board (built around a Spartan-6 LX9 FPGA.) The T80 CPU core was taken from opencores, the SDRAM controller from Mike Field’s work and [Will] implemented additional functions: – a 4KB paged Memory Management Unit to translate the 16-bit (64KB) logical address space into a 26-bit (64MB) physical address space. – a 16KB direct mapped cache to hide the SDRAM latency, using the FPGA internal block RAM – a UART interface for external communications He also ported CP/M-2.2, MP/M-II and UZI (a UNIX system) to the computer. His project is completely open-source and all the source code can be downloaded at the end of [Will]’s write up. via the FPGA ATOM topic on stardot. The base SDRAM controller can be seen here but for me the cache is the interesting part. |
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