First Amiga 600 FPGA Accelerator

[majsta]

Cyclone II nothing special but it is enough to do the job Basically I think that it could be done with any FPGA.

[Hattig]

Impressive - would you say that is about 3x faster than an A1200's '020 with Fast RAM, or in other words around a 40MHz '020.

Any further performance improvements planned? Are you tempted to try out a faster FPGA at some point?

[Mrs Beanbag]

One day I hope to try making my own 68k FPGA core, with 68060-like superscalar pipeline. But if you get such performance out of a lowly FPGA, imagine what you could get out of a high end one, the mind boggles!

[wawrzon]

@majsta: impressive, how could i miss it.
now its even faster i allow maself to link to your updated fotos:

http://imageshack.us/a/img827/7007/imga0053b.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img14/1927/imga0049q.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img845/9884/imga0052r.jpg

perhaps we should buy you a cyclone4..

[majsta]

Thanks all. like I said before it is not so important what FPGA you are using. I could use Cyclone4 but there is no need for that because complete code is just about 6000 LE and Cyclone 4 goes as I can recall to 115 000 and there is no use of that only increase of eventual production to +200 USD.

[majsta]

http://youtu.be/ZNLdQbrmyQU

[Djole]

Seems like nobody noticed there is some huge news from this project. The card is ready for production and Majsta is taking preorders. The price is just 90 euro, which is dirt cheap compared to other cards with much less functionality, perspective and innovation.

This is a revolution for classic Amiga hardware so I think all should support this talented developer.

[ChaosLord]

Did he ever add L1 cache?