<div dir="ltr"><br><br>On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 7:08 PM Paul Reed <<a href="mailto:paulreed@paddedcell.com">paulreed@paddedcell.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Is the video display generated and displaying random SRAM contents? Are<br>> all the LEDs dim, off, or a different pattern? Is the pattern changed by<br>> using the slide switch 0 to select alternate boot?<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> Paul<br><br>I finally found the old board. Connected the daughter board with the SD and PS2 for the mouse.<br>The Video display is a random gray distribution; it could be inverted with switch 7 on the board.<br><div>The LEDs flash all on at configuring the FPGA, then only LED 7 keeps on: <br></div><div>80H: Just started booting, will initialize SPI.</div><div></div><div>There is no pattern difference at startup with slide switch 0 off or on.</div><div><br></div><div>But with switch 0 off, after startup, all LEDs went off when pushing button 3, then LED 7 and 2 are on: <br></div><div>84H: core loaded, will hand over to loaded core.
</div><div>And with switch 0 on, after startup, all LEDs went off when pushing button 3, then LED 7 and 0 are on: <br></div><div>81H:
SPI initialized, will load core from serial.</div><div>The video pattern is the same in both cases, there is no glitching or change on screen.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I saw a correct booting process on the Nexys4 Rev B with Oberon WorkStation version recently released by Chris Burrows, at least the visible quick phases, and is as follows on the LEDs:</div>80H: Just started booting, will initialize SPI<br>82H: SPIinitialized, will load core from disk<br>84H: core loaded, will hand over to loaded core<br>23H: Mark phase finished: briefly<br>20H: GC finished: keeps on<br><div><br></div><div></div><div>The LEDs interpretation I take it from:</div><a href="http://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2020/015061.html">http://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2020/015061.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div>Prof Pablo Cayuela<br>Argentina</div>