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Initial Sinclair upload

A project log for TMS0800 FPGA implementation in VHDL

Inspired by http://righto.com/ti and http://righto.com/sinclair I set out to do similar in VHDL, for MicroNova Mercury board.

zpekiczpekic 09/03/2019 at 06:590 Comments

I was able to verify few operations on basic arguments and compare them to real Sinclair Scientific for match. Following problems remain:


- LED blurs at higher frequency. Calculation can be done at 12.5MHz but LED is blurry above 40kHz or so

- breakpoint and single step logic needs to be laid out more logically on the switches, and dual clock unit avoided

- VGA tracer still drops some character from display.

Note that none of the above impacts calculation. I also briefly tested TI mode, seems no regression was introduced there.

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