Fundamentals of Computer Design

Support page and NSL tools download

ICCD 2009, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA. Presentation Slide

Example for FPGA/NSL/SFL beginners.

small 8bit CPU demo package
NSL PRIMER TUTORIAL
6502 Compatible CPU demo package
Make your own game platform (Midway) from scratch.
- Midway compatible game console for Xilinx Spartan3 Starter Kit
  source code of the system (NSL) midway.tar.bz2

Design flow with NSLCore:

NSLCore without license file can convert up to 500 lines of NSL. You can request for non profit license from OVERTONE CORP., Licensing site which allows you upto 2000 lines. After submitting your information, you will get an email with license file. Put the llicense file somewhere in your PC, and set environment variable NSL_LICENSE_FILE to designate the file. If you need full version or support, you can contact to Overtone Corp. for paid license.

You can download and install from following site, as
tar xzf nslcore-i386-linux-20100304.tar.gz -C / Or, you can use trial site.

Binary Distribution

Related Items:

NSLspecE.txt NSL syntax description

NSL development with Papyrus UML

SN/X CPU written with PapyrusUML

m8 CPU written with PapyrusUML

The corresponding of class diagram and NSL syntax is followings:

class: module
+attribute: input/output pin
-attribute: register
+operation: func_in
#operation: func_out
-operation: proc
~operation: func_self
composition: sub module
generalization: Inheritance

6502 Compatible CPU demo package

POP11: PDP11/40m compatible CPU by Yoshihiro Iida

NSL Tutorial text SFL Tutorial text

LiveCygwin packages:

LiveCygwin ARCHIVE(ZIPPED) A non-profit live cdrom archive to run cygwin without install. Feel free to contact Shimizu for customize. It includes Icarus Verilog, GTK wave, GHDL, nsl2vl etc. Click 'startup.bat' on the top folder, it will show you a LiveCygwin window.
LiveCygwin CDROM ISO(7z compressed)

You need non profit license to make some packages. You can request for non profit license from this site, or contact to Overtone Corp. Place attached file to somewhere in your PC, and set an environment variable NSL_LICENSE_FILE to designate the file.

Embedded Technology and others

nxtOSEK package for LiveCygwinnxtOSEK
Download following two files in to LiveCygwin's /usr/arch. You can use nxtOSEK after startup the LiveCygwin.
1. nxtOSEK 2.17 package including sg.exe
2. tools for nxtOSEK
OSEK/VDX: Toppers ATK1 porting
- i386/cygwin modules for ATK1 1.0 It may run on Linux, too.

EMM200 and support patch for HP-200LX

Trial to make a good sound audio amplifier based on current amplify. I was inspired with JLH amp to make my original.

Contact:

IP Architecture Laboratory
Naohiko Shimizu
Email:nshimizu _at_ ip-arch.jp
URL: http://www.ip-arch.jp/

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