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Really cool project, I sure wish I learned to do that sort of thing at University.

Hi Bock and Maxim,

Last semester, we made the Sega Master System on an FPGA as our capstone design project at Carnegie Mellon University. We used a Z80 from OpenCores, but we wrote the VDP and PSG from scratch in SystemVerilog. We wouldn't have been able to complete our project without the documentation from SMS Power. Thank you for all of the thorough documentation that made our project possible! I have attached our project report and a picture of us during our project demo. Feel free to share our report with anyone who might be interested.

Celeste, Jeremy, and Suzz

PDF attached.
Code at https://github.com/celesteneary/sms

20161209_145909.jpg (4.36 MB)

SMSFinalReport.pdf (706.18 KB)

Very cool.

I also never had the opportunity to do stuff that cool during my Comp Sci degree.

Pretty cool.

AWESOME !!!! Thankyou ;)

Bock wrote

Really cool project, I sure wish I learned to do that sort of thing at University.

me too :|

Great work!

Wow. Awesome. Such a great job and to come back and say thanks with all these details is also wonderful.

very cool...

couldn't someone use this fpga implementation and use it to develop an master system hdmi with a sdcard slot ??

cpu. vdp. psg. almost everything done.. just missing the fm module and it's perfect..

Kevtris has been working on an fpga multi-system for a few years now. I believe he already has sms and gg implemented. ( As well as virtually every 8-bit system imaginable)

Wow, that's so cool. :)
I always wanted to learn FPGAs. We didn't have anything nearly as cool as that back in my comp sci course. :(

Freaking fantastic. I'd be very interested in designing a PCB for this if you all decide to finish off the graphics II work and such. It could potentially go into production.
See my website for info on what I've designed: https://segasonicfan.wixsite.com/retro

Thanks for sharing, Bock!

-Segasonicfan

i hope this cool initiative can motivate more and more people developing similar projects at university

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Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8649 Location: Paris, France	FPGA Sega Master System by students at Carnegie Mellon University Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:30 pm
	Really cool project, I sure wish I learned to do that sort of thing at University. Hi Bock and Maxim, Last semester, we made the Sega Master System on an FPGA as our capstone design project at Carnegie Mellon University. We used a Z80 from OpenCores, but we wrote the VDP and PSG from scratch in SystemVerilog. We wouldn't have been able to complete our project without the documentation from SMS Power. Thank you for all of the thorough documentation that made our project possible! I have attached our project report and a picture of us during our project demo. Feel free to share our report with anyone who might be interested. Celeste, Jeremy, and Suzz PDF attached. Code at https://github.com/celesteneary/sms 20161209_145909.jpg (4.36 MB) SMSFinalReport.pdf (706.18 KB)

matt Joined: 05 Jul 2017 Posts: 67 Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom	Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 3:50 pm
	Very cool. I also never had the opportunity to do stuff that cool during my Comp Sci degree.

haroldoop Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 874 Location: Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil	Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:24 pm
	Pretty cool.

BcnAbel76 Joined: 28 Feb 2016 Posts: 502 Location: Barcelona	Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 11:12 pm
	AWESOME !!!! Thankyou ;)

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3823 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 8:43 am
	Bock wrote Really cool project, I sure wish I learned to do that sort of thing at University. me too :\| Great work!

TheSegaDude Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 44 Location: Canada	Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:29 pm
	Wow. Awesome. Such a great job and to come back and say thanks with all these details is also wonderful.

nuno14272 Joined: 10 Aug 2017 Posts: 31	Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:04 am
nuno14272 Joined: 10 Aug 2017 Posts: 31	very cool... couldn't someone use this fpga implementation and use it to develop an master system hdmi with a sdcard slot ?? cpu. vdp. psg. almost everything done.. just missing the fm module and it's perfect..

Raccoon Lad Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 495 Location: El Cerrito, CA	Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:51 pm
	Kevtris has been working on an fpga multi-system for a few years now. I believe he already has sms and gg implemented. ( As well as virtually every 8-bit system imaginable)

efry Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Posts: 106 Location: Sydney Australia	Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 11:05 am
	Wow, that's so cool. :) I always wanted to learn FPGAs. We didn't have anything nearly as cool as that back in my comp sci course. :(

segasonicfan Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 374 Location: USA	Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:16 pm
	Freaking fantastic. I'd be very interested in designing a PCB for this if you all decide to finish off the graphics II work and such. It could potentially go into production. See my website for info on what I've designed: https://segasonicfan.wixsite.com/retro Thanks for sharing, Bock! -Segasonicfan

nitrofurano Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 322 Location: Porto, Portugal	Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:28 pm
	i hope this cool initiative can motivate more and more people developing similar projects at university

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