HOME-MADE COMPUTER BASED ON A FPGA AND AN ARM9 A Capon1990’s & MrLambdaUser's Project --- FPGA (Hardware part) --- MAIN FEATURES - Based on an FPGA Altera Cyclone II with 68'000 LUTs (Terasic DE2-70 Kit) - Is used as HARDWARE ACCELERATOR - No IP were used - only "Home made" VHDL blocks SPECIFICATIONS - FPGA : Altera Cyclone II 68k LE - MEMORY : 64MB SDRAM (32bit) @ 125MHz / SDCARD (using FAT32 file system) - VIDEO : Multi VGA Output @ max. 1280x1024@60Hz 15bit color depth - AUDIO : Audio Codec @ 88.2kHz 24bit (1 stereo output) - ETHERNET : 1x 100Mbit/s - MISC I/O : 2x PS2 (Keyboard/Mouse) SOME MEASURED PERFORMANCES - SDRAM controller : 500MB/s - Graphics processing unit : up to 160Mpixels/s --- ARM (Software part) --- MAIN FREATURES - Based on an ARM AT91RM9200 @ 180MHz (HES-SO Kit) - EBI Interface @ 25MB/s used for the communication with the FPGA - All 'Home made' code, EXCEPTING the Box2D physics library (see www.box2d.org) SOFTWARE - Boot system using .HEX file in the SDCARD (FPGA) - FPGA Drivers, FAT32 - Graphical User Interface - Some applications (Game, Demonstrations, Audio player, Picture viewer) --- CREDITS --- FPGA Implementation : capons1990, MrLambdaPlayer ARM Programming : capons1990 Graphics, sound and music : MrLambdaPlayer (Presentation made with Blender, see www.blender.org)