JagNetlists (c) 2013 Gregory Estrade All rights reserved (until I sort out the licensing stuff). ================================================================================ About ================================================================================ This project is a port of the Atari Jaguar chipset to a Stratix-II FPGA. It features the Tom & Jerry chips, and a 68000 core. Tom & Jerry designs have been converted from the original "netlists" files to Verilog HDL, using a compiler/translator tool that I wrote. It runs on a Nios-II Development Kit - Stratix edition (RoHS) board, with the addition of a daughterboard that features a 24-bit VGA DAC. The 68000 core (J68), the daughterboard and so much more are courtesy from Frederic Requin a.k.a frenchshark. I owe much to him, as this project would not have seen the light of the day without his advice. ================================================================================ History ================================================================================ A year or so ago, I found myself getting interested in the Jaguar console (don't ask why). I started a rewrite of the chipset in VHDL, as well as writing the translation tool, that was solely intended to simulation and verification. I got myself a bit familiar with the Jaguar's architecture, but I eventually went into a dead end, as I didn't own at this time a FPGA board powerful enough. Also, it seemed to me that the time and effort required to get a reasonable accuracy was way too high... Then, at a retrocomputing event (VieuMikro), Frederic and I were talking about our projects, and from this moment, many things happened: - Frederic was (is) working on an Amiga core, and for this purpose designed the J68, a lightweight but full-featured 68000 core written in Verilog. - He switched from VHDL to Verilog, and convinced me to do so, because of the largest set of tools available, especially Verilator, which is amazing. - Apart from the J68 core, he developed some cool software to use with Verilator, such as a 68000 disassembler. - Finally he found an eBay shop selling these Stratix-II boards for a low price, and I purchased one of them. It was then the right time to give this project a new try. And when I got myself into what was possible with Verilator (due to its easy software integration and speed), I then thought that using the original netlist could be possible not only as a reference, but for synthesis as well.. ================================================================================ Gregory Estrade, 05/10/2013