FPGA hacking

Back in 2004 or so, I acquired a Altera Nios Development Kit, Cyclone Edition with an EP1C20 FPGA and a AleaREP Lancelot daughercard to do FPGA hacking on. So far, my biggest project has been cloning the Swedish ABC80 microcomputer from the late 1970's, but I also have written a few more hacks, including the CompactFlash player that is available on the Lancelot page as a demo.

NEWS:In December 2008 I ported this design to the Terasic DE1/Altera Cyclone II Starter Kit (it is the same board, so you can get whichever is cheaper where you live.) These have a similar capacity FPGA (EP2C20), and a fairly similar feature set, just lacking the Ethernet connector. However, these boards are much cheaper, with a list price $150 instead of $1170, and a discount for students. The last picture shows the DE1 board.

The source code to these various projects are here.

Download a zipfile with all the images. (14.9 MiB).

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