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Specifications

These are the current specifications of the FPGC6.

CPU

  • 50MHz 5-stage pipelined CPU with option to add L1 cache
  • 32bit instructions
  • 16 32bit registers, of which 15 are General Purpose, R0 is always 0
  • 27bit program counter for a possible address space of 0.5GiB at 32bit
  • Easily extendable amount of hardware interrupts, currently 8 in use

GPU

  • 320x200 at 256 colors Tile-based and bitmap (at 320x240) rendering GPU with selectable HDMI (480P) and NTSC (240P) output
  • Two layers of 8x8 Tiles of which one layer (background) has horizontal hardware scrolling support
  • (currently not working anymore) One Sprite layer with support for 64 Sprites. Max 16 Sprites per horizontal line
  • Bitmap rendering layer allowing for access to each of the 230x240 individual pixels supporting 256 colors

Memory

  • 16MiB external SPI flash in two modes:
    • QSPI with continuous read mode @ 25MHz: 32bit addresses. Read Only!
    • SPI bus mode @ 25MHz: Accessible as a normal SPI device
  • 64MiB SDRAM @ 100MHz. 32bit addresses. Used as main memory (currently only 32MiB is accessible until memory map is updated)
  • ~16.4KiB VRAM (SRAM) for tile-based rendering. Combination of 32, 8 and 9bit addresses
  • 75 KiB VRAM (SRAM) for bitmap rendering
  • 2KiB internal ROM for the Bootloader. 32bit addresses
  • 4KiB Hardware Stack (SRAM). 32bit addresses, internal to CPU
  • 4KiB L2 cache (SRAM)

I/O

  • Memory mapped I/O
  • 3 One Shot (OS) timers
  • PS/2 Keyboard support
  • UART and power over USB
  • 4 GPI and 4 GPO pins (will become 8 true GPIO pins eventually)
  • I2S DAC for future audio support
  • 2 USB host ports with FAT(12/16/32) file system support using a CH376T controller over SPI
  • Ethernet using W5500 over SPI