Somewhat OT: FPGA Develpment Kits

[Richard]

In article <45637492.10102 at arachelian.com>,
    Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com>  writes:

> Would certainly be fun to figure out how to do this.  Are there any
> resources or samples out there that would point at how this is done?  Do
> you start with a schematic of the CPU or the device and convert that to
> verilog by hand, or is there some automated way?

I suppose for older CPUs that were implemented in discrete logic or
SSI standard parts, its fairly easy to come up with a schematic.
However, for all-on-one-chip MPUs, generally there isn't a schematic
available and you have to work from a behavioral specification like
the datasheet.
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