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Section A.) Final Year Design Project |
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DESIGN OF FPGA BASED EPROM EMULATOR FOR 16 BIT
MICROPROCESSOR DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM - MOTOROLA 68000
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Noohul Basheer Zain Ali
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
31750 Tronoh, Perak Darul Ridzuan,
Malaysia
email:[email protected]
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Lai Soon Chong
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
31750 Tronoh, Perak Darul Ridzuan,
Malaysia
email:[email protected] |
Yap Voon Vooi
Middlesex University, Bounds Green
Road, London N11 2NQ
United Kingdom
email:[email protected]
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ABSTRACT
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The main purpose of EPROM Emulator is to provide memory to a Microprocessor
Embedded System (Circuit) such that no memory devices are required to be fitted into the
circuitry. Heart of the EPROM Emulator is the Static RAM used to emulate, the target
system or circuitry memory (EPROM). EPROM Emulator is used in assisting the System
Software (Firmware) development for the targeted circuit. It allows the Static RAM being
shared between the development platform and the target circuit exclusively. Allowing the
memory device sharing, the EPROM Emulator can accelerate the System Software
development process by eliminating time consuming process such as programming and
erasing the EPROM. Implementing the design on FPGA, allows more flexible and
portable design. This as such the circuitry of the EPROM Emulator can easily be
modified to suit any type of microprocessor not only the Motorola 68000 family.
Design implementation proves that classical method of circuit design is rigid and more
painstaking, the VHDL design proves to be more systematic and debugging of the design
can be done at every stage of the design flow.
Keywords: FPGA, 68000, Microprocessor, EPROM Emulator, Integrated Circuit, System
Software, Firmware.
Download the full extended absract in PDF format here
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Section B.) Other Electronics and FPGA Links |
 | Open Cores - Great site for Open Source FPGA Core, complete source code and clear documentation of each project posted on the site |
 | Xilinx - Good site to start for FPGA devices and CAD tools. Here you can download lots of tutorial and datasheet for various Xilinx based FPGA device such as XC4000 series, SPARTAN and Virtex. There are also free CAd software for download such as the Webpack ISE. The Xilinx Webpack is a full range FPGA design tool using both VHDL and Verilog |
 | ALDEC - Provider of one of the easiet to use VHDL and FPGA CAD, Download the trial version of ADLEC Active HDL from the site, it allows simulation and RTL compilation which can be integrated with the Xilinx Webpack ISE. |
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