[Oberon] Updated RISC5 firmware

Skulski, Wojciech skulski at pas.rochester.edu
Thu Oct 25 07:10:02 CEST 2018


All:

  while exploring the NW website, I stepped upon the paper "RISC5 Update" dated 15.6.2018. 

www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html ---> RISC5 Update

The paper says that both the CPU and the top level Verilog were improved and updated. So I started to explore.

NW website www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html 

    RISC5Top.v is dated 14.6.2018
    RISC5.v      is dated 31.8.2018

The official www.projectoberon.com 

    RISC5Top.v is dated 3.10.15 (OberonStation)
    RISC5Top.v is dated 14.6.2018 (Digilent Spartan 3).

However,  RISC5Top.v is the only Verilog file on the ProjectOberon website. It is in fact a direct link to the NW version.

The other Verilog files are in the archive "Verilog Source zip". So I looked into this archive:

    RISC5Top.v is dated 22.9.2015  (in the archive)
    RISC5.v      is dated 25.9.2015  (in the archive)

Hmm. It is not the most ideal situation that the NW website is out of synch with the ProjectOberon website, which is often referred to as an official website for this project.

Not that I want to complain. But it is good to know where is the stuff. I will now download it to my own local disk and label it as the 2018 version of the firmware. 

Wojtek





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