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We will continue building the instruction set for our custom CPUs. Plans are to fix a bug in movaf, create movfa (move from memory to register a), and create jump opcodes for register_a and memory location comparisons. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will…

This class will teach you the fundamentals of ANSI C. We’re aiming for both beginners and those who have had little experience with C. Though experience with other languages would be helpful, it is not required. We’ll work on different projects to teach us the fundamentals. We’ll start with a simple Hello, World and work…

We will continue building the instruction set for our custom CPUs. Plans are to have add, subtract, logical shift (left and right), and rotate (left and right). Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have time to wait for the install process to…

We started work on our CPU last week. This class will focus on getting the CPU up and running with simple instructions like add, subtract, multiply, divide, jump, and sending data to the IO ports. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have…

This will be the last class on VGA before moving to CPUs. We will be modifying our code to draw multiple lines of text on the screen. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have time to wait for the install process to…

We will continue our work with VGA monitors. I have new code that we will be using to draw binary values with. If time permits, we will cover basic bitmaps. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have time to wait for the…

Let’s talk food and drink. Bring something to share. You’re thinking bacon, right? Or maybe homemade sweet potato pie. I hear folks love kabobs. The grill is going to be working overtime. What you’re bringing is entirely up to you. This is you’re opportunity to show off that special recipe and that fancy pants imported…

We will continue working with LCD monitors. The plan is to create a binary counter display that can display like a series of LEDs. We will start with one 8 bit vector and move on to showing multiple integers. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!!…

We will continue to work on VGA by creating a VHDL module that can run off of a variable timing (defined at time of creation) and then creating a package that defines a series of VGA timings that the new VHDL module can use. If time permits, we will start talking about ideas for displaying…

We will be continuing from last week’s VGA designs. There were problems with some people not being able to display anything on their monitors. After some tweaking of the timings, I think everything should be good to go. If you have a monitor with a VGA connection and can bring it, please do. We have…