Category: Workshop

Yep, weather sucks and people’s driving in said weather makes the roads even more unsafe. Web Night is cancelled for this evening. Sorry for the inconvenience!

If you’ve never picked up a soldering iron before, but would like to learn the art of soldering then this class is for you. Buddy has made a generous donation of beginner level soldering kits. There will be 18 kits available on a first come first serve basis. We’ll have soldering irons available as well,…

We will be implementing a Xilinx divider IP core so that our CPUs can divide. If we finish creating and testing the divider, then we will move on to creating a flags register and implementing addca (add with carry). Please bring a breadboard and jumpers so that we can troubleshoot using the three external IO…

We had planned on adding division and add w/ carry, but there has been a change. Since the divider opcode took quite a while, we will be covering how to get the divider working from the ground up. This will be done using the ISE simulator and simple test bench code. We will cover the…

Continue work on our custom CPU. We will be finishing the push and pop opcodes and writing test programs to use them with ret and call. If time permits, we will also create the flags register and a new addition opcode that adds the remainder from the last addition operation. The code is up on…

We will be adding ‘addca’ to add the carry bit from the last addition operation. Additionally, we will be adding ‘call’ and ‘ret’ statements (along with the required stack information) to enable branching. Please bring a breadboard and jumpers so that we can troubleshoot using the three external IO buses. If you cannot bring those…

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…