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Table of Contents PDP-8 Build of Tom Almy's PDP-8 FPGA (Working 2021-May) OpenCores PDP-8 Build Others PDP-8 FPGA PDP-8 Documents and Programming PiDP-8

PDP-8

Build of Tom Almy's PDP-8 FPGA (Working 2021-May)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-lU59broa4

My build is based on Tom Almy's book The PDP-8 Class Project: Resoling An Old Machine.

PDP-8 FPGA - Hackaday page with progress logs
Hardware used
- RETRO-EP4CE15 - FPGA Hardware used
  - QMTECH EP4CE15 FPGA Card
- PDP-8 Front Panel
FPGA Code
- PDP-8 Almy book on GitHub
My PDP-8 Software GitHub repository

OpenCores PDP-8 Build

Hackaday page with progress logs
Land Board OpenCores PDP-8 Builds - GitHub repository
- RETRO-EP4CE15_CYCLONE_IV_VDU PDP-8 Build
  - Built in VDU with cpu_001 (IOP16B built-in) - Latest build
  - VDU IOP assembly code
- RETRO-EP4CE15_CYCLONE_IV
  - Serial only (no VDU)
- RETRO-EP4CE15_CYCLONE_V
  - WIP - missing pin assignment
Hardware used
- RETRO-EP4CE15 - FPGA Hardware used
  - QMTECH EP4CE15 FPGA Card
- PDP-8 Front Panel
opencores PDP-8 Processor Core and System Overview
- Quickstart page

Others PDP-8 FPGA

Another Almy based design - In Verilog
Yet another Almy based design
PDP-8 in VHDL
A FGPA Implementation of the PDP-8
PDP-8/I on an FPGA
PDP-8/i cpu with an RF08 disk emulator Uses a IDE disk as a backing store. It boots TSS/8.
PDP-8 Instruction verification - In System Verilog?
PDP8 in a Cypress PSoC5
Scott Baker's PDP8-SOC - Clean VHDL Design

PDP-8 Documents and Programming

PiDP-8

PiDP-8/I: RECREATING THE PDP-8/I - Obsolescence Guaranteed
PiDP-8/I software development nexus