{"id":705,"date":"2013-12-13T21:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T21:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=705"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:23:10","slug":"no-i-havent-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"No, I haven&#8217;t vanished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of recent updates.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been completely idle but my time&#8217;s being filled with other things at the moment, including replacing light fittings, hanging pictures and learning the guitar!<\/p>\n<p>Despite the silence, I&#8217;ve not been completely inactive on the FPGA front, however, and I&#8217;m still slowly building my library of demo projects for my &#8220;Flex&#8221; variant of the ZPU processor.\u00a0 In the process I&#8217;m redesigning and streamlining a lot of the components that made up the TG68MiniSOC project, so that will be updated with the results before too much longer, and I&#8217;ve also started branching out from being purely Altera-based into Xilinx too.<\/p>\n<p>This last development is the result of reader Emanuel Stiebler very generously supplying me with a Spartan-6 board!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ESM-BB10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-706\" alt=\"ESM-BB10\" src=\"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ESM-BB10.jpg\" width=\"701\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ESM-BB10.jpg 701w, https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ESM-BB10-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ESM-BB10-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has an XC6SLX45 FPGA, 32 megabytes of SDRAM, 4 megabyte of SSRAM, a microcontroller, dual micro-SD slots (one for the \u00b5C, one for the FPGA) and an assortment of IO ports.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already ported a few of the ZPU Demos to this new board (and a couple of the simpler ones to the original Minimig board while I&#8217;m at it!) but will post about the process in more detail soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of recent updates.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been completely idle but my time&#8217;s being filled with other things at the moment, including replacing light fittings, hanging pictures and learning the guitar! Despite the silence, I&#8217;ve not been completely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpga","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}