[Coco] DriveWire on the DE1

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
> On 06/12/2010 05:45 PM, sales at gimechip.com wrote:
>>
>> I have got to go check this out. I have an older version of it (CC3FPGA)
>> running on the digilent spartan board - looks like i need a newer board now
>> judging by these posts...
>>
>
> I hope the Digilent board isn't obsolete.  I haven't even finished modifying
> mine for 6-bit color.  I don't think the DE1 is running faster then the
> Digilent Spartan board.  But my understanding is that Gary helped Boisy and
> others port his HDL code to the other board (presumably because that's what
> somebody else had?)  Or something like that.  I would be very disappointed
> though to find the Spartan board dropped from further development before I
> even get mine up and running...

AFAIK, all functionality is supported on both the Altera and Spartan boards,
and both operate at the same speed.  Gary might want to confirm or clarify.


>
> JCE
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 4:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire on the DE1
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> With Gary Becker's awesome work, we now have DriveWire fully running on
>>> the CoCo 3 FGPA project on the DE1. Currently the CoCo polls the data from
>>> the server, but Gary has made an interrupt feature available which we will
>>> be taking advantage of soon.
>>>
>>> Running the CoCo 3 at 25MHz on the DE1 with DriveWire is an amazing
>>> experience. Thanks Gary for your hard work. I know this will only get better
>>> with time.
>>
>>
>> Just tried this out myself... awesome!  Thank you Gary!  And thanks
>> Boisy for putting together the DriveWire driver too.
>>
>> BTW.. This is running DriveWire at 460kbps, and we may be able to go
>> even faster...  25Mhz cpu, 4x speed DriveWire..  the ultimate NitrOS9
>> machine?
>>
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