[Coco] FPGA CoCo's

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Thu May 21 22:30:57 EDT 2015


On 22/05/2015 11:10 AM, Dave Philipsen wrote:

> Well, that's good to know. It's a shame that Altera changed the memory and
> couldn't find a chip that is at least compatible with the old one.

FTR the board is produced by TerASIC, not Altera.

> Unfortunately, Gary doesn't publish the source and I'm not sure he has time
> to keep up with it (although I don't know him personally nor have I
> communicated with him).

He did publish some early source, though I don't recall if that was for the 
DE1 or not. I ported an early version of his Xilinx-based project to the DE1 
(older board) but that's very outdated now.

> Anyway, it will be handy for other things IF I can get this stinkin SRAM
> figured out.  It doesn't behave like most standard SRAMs and I frankly don't
> have that much experience with VHDL to figure it out.

Yeah I'm not really sure what the issue is as I have an older board.

Regards,

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