Homebrew 68K Retrocomputing on Low Cost FPGA Boards

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 20, 2018, 3 p.m. (60 minutes).

Growing up on the Commodore Amiga introduced Keith to the venerable Motorola 68000 processor. This talk will share the technical details of how he integrated an open-source 68K soft-core processor on a $30 FPGA board: what challenges he faced, skills he needed to learn, and how he managed to create his own retrocomputer - complete with 7" touchscreen and old-school audio - from scratch. This talk will touch on topics like computer architecture and design, Verilog HDL, 68K assembly language, electronics, and more!

Presenters:

• Keith Monahan
  **Keith Monahan** has been a participant in hacker conventions including SummerCon, PumpCon, and HOPE starting in the early 1990s. While his professional education and background is in computer science and software quality assurance, he plays in the hobbyist electronics design space. His blog, techtravels.org, details often Amiga-focused electronics projects spanning a dozen years. He is a hacker in every sense of the word.

Links:

• https://xii.hope.net/schedule.html#-homebrew-68k-retrocomputing-on-low-cost-fpga-boards-
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Homebrew 68K Retrocomputing on Low Cost FPGA Boards.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Homebrew 68K Retrocomputing on Low Cost FPGA Boards.eng.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7aADQzLZo

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