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Multicomp Cyclone II-B
Portions of the hardware and designs on this page are based on Grant Searle's original work, which was published with the following license: “By downloading these files you must agree to the following: The original copyright owners of ROM contents are respectfully acknowledged. Use of the contents of any file within your own projects is permitted freely, but any publishing of material containing whole or part of any file distributed here, or derived from the work that I have done here will contain an acknowledgement back to myself, Grant Searle, and a link back to this page. Any file published or distributed that contains all or part of any file from this page must be made available free of charge.” -http://searle.hostei.com/grant/Multicomp/index.html, retrieved 12/14/15.
Introduction
The Multicomp Cyclone II-B (v1.09) is a motherboard which provides peripheral connectivity for a Cyclone II FPGA development board commonly available on eBay. The board was designed by James Moxham and Max Scane and provides connectivity for the following peripherals:
VGA Screen with PS/2 Keyboard interface
Two RS-232 serial ports with DE-9F connectors
SD Card connector
Two RAM sockets to support up to 1 MB of RAM.
Unused signal breakout and prototyping area
DC Jack for 5 Volt power input
Due to the header installation on the Cyclone II module, the module is required to be mounted inverted onto the motherboard.
Z80 Emulation Features
The Z80 Emulation VHDL code is based on Grant Searle's original Multicomp which has been extended to support additional peripherals and features
The VHDL code includes the following enhanced features:
Memory Management Unit supporting up to 1MB of physical RAM with 16KB pages
Fixed Baud-rate for all serial ports
20 ms interrupt generator
These features are supported in the ROM-MJS Enhanced Monitor
Resources
Documentation
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Z80 Emulation Code
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multicomp-_z80-cycloneiib-pof.zip
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