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Day 5: HDMI and VGA

So today I decided to start working on getting some video out of my board. My DE-10 Nano comes with an HDMI port and a video encoder chip built right into it, so that makes a pretty obvious choice of video output. My first order of business was just to see if I could getContinue reading “Day 5: HDMI and VGA”

Day 4: The memory bus and a running CPU program

So last time I got a Motorola 68K up and running, cycling through its entire address space and attempting to execute a dummy instruction. However, in order to get the CPU running an actual program, I need to hook up an actual bus to it. I ended up having to do a hell of aContinue reading “Day 4: The memory bus and a running CPU program”