Getting gateware going
things to do in gateware
Jul 2019
Finally managed to get TX working on the gateware uart, RX is next. Having a UART means that it can talk to the outside world.
Once I have RX working, the following tasks will need to be built.
- Echo Program , make sure char in and char out works
- Scratch Pad , collect char into a ram buffer for parsing
- Monitor, This is basis for the whole system , loading and executing a new program without rebuilding the gateware.
- FORTH , yes build a forth in assembly.
Aaaaaand , Boneless_v3 has started to drop.
Whitequark has been committing to Boneless-CPU. It’s an ongoing process as Ve details the individual instructions. The design is a much better instruction set with extended version of all the instructions.
Now I have to rewrite all my ASM code so far. Part of the adventure I suspect. Currently (20190713) working on getting v3 into gateware will know later today if it works.
Working Blinky
I have working blinky now, now time for the serial bootloader