[Coco] A 6809 Compatible Core in Oct. 1988?

[Little John]

James,
I translated just a bit of it from Dutch (translation = sketchy at best), 
but it appears to be a thesis describing a project for course completeion of 
some sort...

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> Interesting. WOuld be better if it were in English.
>
> What I find interesting is seeing the early HDL language. The HDL predates 
> VHDL and
> Verilog. Probably one of the first attempts to code a processor and be 
> able to simulate it on a
> main frame computer prior to committal to silicon. Prior to the early 90's 
> a chip as complex as
> the 6809 was too large for a single simulation. Computer simulation was in 
> its infancy during
> the 80's. In the early 80's it was almost unthinkable to simulate a 
> complete microprocessor
> on a mainframe computer.
>
> Today there is not a chip that goes out to fabrication without intense 
> simulation and HDL
> design.
>
> james
>
> On 30 Sep 2010 at 0:35, Little John wrote:
>
>> I came across this a few moments ago and although I can't read the 
>> language, it appears to describe a 6809 compatible CPU core in October of 
>> 1988:
>> http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/afstversl/E/302417.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> It is a 205 page document.
>>
>>
>>
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