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Just been given my final year project as part of my uni course. Wanna know what it is?

I have to come up with an "FPGA Implementation of the RTX2000 RISC Processor".

Yup, that's what I thought too.

Wish me luck, I think I'll need it....

Right, I've had a bit of a think about this now, first chance I've had since I was given the project. Busy weekend, you know how it is...

Anyway, an FPGA is, in essence, a chip with thousands of logic gates on, you know, OR, AND, NOT etc. Now, depending on how the chip is programmed, by deleting or creating connections between the gates, a huge logic circuit can be created in the chip.

This logic circuit has to do the same job as the RTX2000 chip. However, because this will take several thousand, if not 10 or 11 thousand gates, I won't just draw the circuit out.

I'll have to code it in VHDL. Not sure what the 'V' stands for, but the HDL stands for Hardware Description Language. It's pretty similar to C, apparently. I say that, because I haven't done any before. Ever.

So, I write the "program", download it into the chip, and voila! It should work.

I don't think it'll be quite that straightforward to be honest...
*sigh*

3 + 4 is 7, kids.

Your Honour wrote:
I *think* I have to emulate that chip in C or something.


Excellent, someone with a project worse than mine.
Mine involves recognition of dinosaur footprints(or something).

SHEEPY wrote:
> You thought about a banana?

Wise words from the SHEEP, as always :-)

I'm not exactly sure what it means, I *think* I have to emulate that chip in C or something. Not too sure. I've got the first meeting about it on wednesday, so I'll let you know.

If you're interested.

Sod it, I'll tell you all about it anyway...

:-)

You thought about a banana?

If its something to do with an old mobile we still have one of the original MAMMOTH sized ones.. it might have what you are looking for?

:-/

Rosalind wrote:
> Gangsta Hamsta wrote:
> They are making new arm processors all the time. Mobiles may not
> have
> the full blown thing, but certainly something from the ARM family.
>
> A finger?


Lol - sad creature that I am, I found this funny.

"Application of Fruit-based paste to wheat-based snack product."

Probably the most difficult thing I've done in Uni so far. Hehe.

Gangsta Hamsta wrote:
> They are making new arm processors all the time. Mobiles may not have
> the full blown thing, but certainly something from the ARM family.

A finger?

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> They must have been in the old 80s mobiles. You could never fit an
> arm in a mobile today cos they're just too small.

They are making new arm processors all the time. Mobiles may not have the full blown thing, but certainly something from the ARM family.