weirdami wrote:
Who worked with her? I thought she did it all by herself. She made the c-one. That was her whole deal.
Exactly. That's crap. Jeri worked alongside some of the greatest minds in homebrew and classic hardware, to get going with the FPGA and then work with specialised VLSI engineers to make the chips.
weirdami wrote:
I don't remember anything about Schoenfeld giving her a c-one to work with.
From what I have read, she had the original idea of recreating the C64 in an FPGA. (Hats off). I would imagine that she played with the various FPGA devkits of the time, found non satisfactory and so Jeri created the specifications and schematics of what an FPGA board would need to be able to do and Schoenfeld designed, routed and built (with input from Jeri along the way) the C-1 PCB to enable her to do it.
Jeri went on to create the initial HDL (hardware description language) core of the C64 image for the C-1. That's the big bit of work she put in. The push to reverse engineer the chips from inspection and technical documentation and turn into VHDL/Verilog for programming onto the FPGA. Again hats off, it was a very impressive feat. But I am sure she didnt work solo on this either.
Then she then took the job at Mammoth Toys where together with other engineers who specialised in chip design they took her HDL (made improvements) into the chips that are on the various C64DTV units.
weirdami wrote:
I devise the question: do we really care what engineers put together our EEPROM's together?
Of course we do. I dont claim to know exactly what went on, I wasnt there, wasnt involved at all. Everything I know is all hearsay, but as a hardware engineer it smells a bit fishy.
