Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished [video]

Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished... by lvoudour on Sunday February 05, 2017 @05:25PM (#13575048)

Brilliant. Never owned an Amiga back in the day (constantly jealous of the superior graphics/sound) so I'm not familiar with the architecture, but it's impressive what you can do with even a low tier FPGA

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Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished... by mntmn on Sunday February 05, 2017 @07:22PM (#13575585)

Thanks! Yes, this was my first real FPGA project (good for learning!), I'm still exploring all the possibilities. For example, only around 25% of the LUTs of the FPGA are currently used, so there is even room to put a simple CPU in there, or simple shaders.

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Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished... by rosege on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:27PM (#13576097)

How did you get started learning about FPGA?

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Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished... by mntmn on Monday February 06, 2017 @05:23AM (#13578193)

I bought a cheap-ish "Papilio Pro" FPGA board one day and wanted to do see if I could get it to output VGA directly (I did that with Atmel MCUs before for fun). So I installed Xilinx WebPack ISE and looked at various docs online. Other people's code (for example Mike Field's) was extremely helpful, too. I still feel I'd like to read a good book on Verilog design to close the gaps, if anyone is a pro I'm happy about recommendations.

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