Zero to ASIC Course

Dan Rodrigues - first shuttle, racing the beam & retro gaming


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00:00 Introducing Dan Rodrigues
01:15 Dan was on the first shuttle
02:30 Converting an FPGA project to an ASIC
03:17 How long it took to prepare his submission?
05:17 What kind of config changes were required?
07:50 VDP-lite - wishbone peripheral that can generate sprites and put out on VGA: https://github.com/dan-rodrigues/caravel_vdp_lite
08:45 No framebuffer
11:20 How many flip flops were required?
12:37 A look at the GDS
14:10 Framebuffer vs racing the beam
16:28 How does the wishbone part work? How can VDP-lite be controlled?
18:10 Do you have projects planned to run on the hardware
19:06 Sam Littlewood’s PCB: https://github.com/samlittlewood/caravel_carrier
25:44 Diadatp made a PR on VGA clock demo for realtime verilator rendering
26:00 Caravel test structure
27:06 Icestation32: https://github.com/dan-rodrigues/icestation-32
28:31 Recommendations from Dan about how to learn more about retro gaming
30:12 Ultimate Gameboy talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI
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