Arcade Hardware Design / Building a Hardware Sprite

Olin College - Computer Architecture - Fall 2005

What is this?

This project was completed as a final course project for ENGR3410 (Computer Architecture) at Olin College of Engineering. It seeks to investigate the design of arcade machine hardware and how hardware sprites were used to perform graphic display.

Who are we?

Your hosts are Brendan Doms ('07), Sean McBride ('07), Brian Shih ('07), and Mikell Taylor ('06). Questions may be directed to us by email, which, to avoid spambot excitement, would be at the address firstname dot lastname at students dot olin dot edu.

What is there to see?

• Introduction
• The Original Plan
• Plan B
• Project Results
• Resources

Resources

• “FPGA: Dad and Randy built a VGA”
• “Pacman hardware”
• "FPGA 4 Fun"
• "FPGA Arcade"
• "Arlet's FPGA page"
• VGA timing information

 

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