COMP290 Graphics Hardware -- Links and Resources

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Tools & Hardware Documentation

Xilinx (we'll use ISE 5 or Webpack)

• Software manuals
• Documentation (main page with pointers to software, data sheets, etc.)
• Tutorials
• Using ModelSim with Webpack
• Table of FPGAs

Xess

• XSA board manual
• XSB board manual
• Downloads, including XSTOOLs
• Example projects
• DRAM documentation - Hynix SDRAM, Micron equivalent of Hynix part on Xess card (datasheet, simulation model in Verilog), Infeneon datasheet.

Digilent

• Manuals, schematics, examples
• Digilab 2E manual

Acute -- manufacturer of our small logic analyzers

• Software download

DRAM controller links

• Xilinx app note 134
• Verilog for the Xilinx design
• VHDL SDRAM controller from Xess (documentation, code)
• Datasheets from Hynix, Micron, Infeneon
• Micron DRAM Verilog model

Other Links

Papers

• Link to ACM Journals, proceedings, etc. through UNC Library. Proxy service from off-campus.  See http://proxy.lib.unc.edu/setupinfo.html.

Computer/Graphics Architecture

• WWW Computer Architecture Page
• 2003 NSF Panel on Architecture Research
• Bill Mark's CS 395T course
• Akeley and Hanrahan's Graphics Architecture class at Stanford

Verilog

• Verilog FAQ
• comp.lang.verilog
• Handbook on Verilog HDL
• Verilog Quick Reference Guide
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FPGAs

• FPGA-FAQ
• comp.arch.fpga
• FPGA CPU
• Opencores.org -- logic cores under GPL
• Experiments with Xess boards
• Games on FPGAs

3D Graphics Hardware

• Manticore -- project to develop open source 3D hdw
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