[Coco] COCO FPGA

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Sat Dec 24 03:19:59 EST 2011


On 24/12/2011 3:38 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> As for hardware like the Speech/Sound pak, don't forget that these can
> be implemented right in the FPGA.   While the FGPA boards do provide
> I/O pins for interfacing with add on hardware, there isn't always a
> need to build it when FPGAs are so flexible and powerful.

The reason the Speech Pak hasn't been emulated in an FPGA is because it has 
(IIRC) a processor, so someone would have to first develop and debug that 
core before the rest of the pak - which shouldn't be very difficult - could 
be done.

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