Some progress (HP 85B)

[Olivier De Smet]

Hi, just some pictures for my last project.

http://sites.google.com/site/olivier2smet2/hpseries80/fpga-hp85b

Bye

[J-F Garnier]

Great project, congratulation!

I see that the CPU is ok now. Let us know the next progress...

J-F

Edited: 1 May 2010, 5:25 a.m.

[Juergen Keller]

Are there any technical background information?

[Olivier De Smet]

My main source is the patent # 4424563 for the description of the CPU. For the system I used the Assembler manual and other HP publications.

The global structure



The CPU

I used fig. 1 of the patent to structure the fpga project :

• schematics to structure the system
  
• some verilog for ALU and Control Logic

For the global system I added a picoblaze controler
to 'hypervise' the system with the serial link of the board:

• step CPU
  
• trace until PC
  
• ...

But now I think I have some timing problem with the Strataflash on the Nexys2 board. Sometimes the CPU can't 'read' the rom ...

Edited: 2 May 2010, 3:05 a.m.