[Coco] FPGA Question

Zippster zippster278 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 00:36:06 EDT 2016


I think he’s pretty far along.  A while ago on Facebook it sounded like he was close
to releasing the daughterboards on OSH Park for builders.

He also sounds quite committed to the project as far as continued development.

- Ed


> On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:09 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, and I assume that if you build the FPGA project on a DE0-Nano then there's no way to just run it straight out of the box since the Nano has neither a VGA interface, PS/2 keyboard interface, nor flash memory for the ROM code, right?
> 
> Just out of curiosity, how far along is Roger?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On 6/9/2016 11:02 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
>> On 10/06/2016 12:58 PM, Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> 
>>> If you're referring to the CoCo3FPGA then you'll want a Terasic DE1 or a
>>> DE2.
>> 
>> The confusion may stem from the fact that Roger Taylor also has his own Coco FPGA project that runs on a TerASIC DE0-Nano.
>> 
>> In theory, either project could be ported to the other hardware, though both have now been extended to support additional hardware via add-on boards specific to each platform.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
> 
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