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Day 6: The VCP, VRAM, & Clock Domain Issues

So over the last couple of days I started work on the video co-processor (from here on I think I’ll refer to as the VCP) of the Athena. The goal of this co-processor is to get two independently scrolling tilemap layers, 128 sprites, and 256 onscreen colors. This turned out to be a bit ofContinue reading “Day 6: The VCP, VRAM, & Clock Domain Issues”

Introducing Athena: My FPGA retro game console project

Normally, I’m a software engineer. In particular, I specialize in architecting netcode for games. A few weeks ago, I departed a job doing just that at Super Bit Machine – the game I worked on for two years was successfully launched and I’m quite proud of the work I did on it. That said, havingContinue reading “Introducing Athena: My FPGA retro game console project”