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R. Belmont Cuckoo for IGAvania Reged: 09/21/03 Posts: 9716 Loc: ECV-197 The Orville Send PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? 01/05/12 12:21 AM Reply > Could a unit be made with an unprogrammed FPGA to avoid > all the copyright/patent issues ... ? FPGAs normally *are* unprogrammed; you upload a bitstream and they instantly reconfigure, as many times as you like. It's possible to make and sell them preconfigured, but obviously that's not useful in this instance. FPGArcade.com actually made and sold a small number of a little box with an unprogrammed FPGA, A/V outputs, and an ARM CPU to assist in programming the FPGA. You upload the bitstream for whatever system you want to emulate from your PC and it goes. Add built-in controls, a screen, and battery power and you're good to go (I'm sure it'd take Ben Heck about a minute and a half ;-)

Entire thread Subject Posted by Posted on Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? grobda 01/02/12 07:06 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? redk9258  01/02/12 07:15 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? grobda  01/02/12 08:15 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? R. Belmont  01/03/12 06:20 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? grobda  01/03/12 09:19 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? R. Belmont  01/04/12 07:39 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? grobda  01/04/12 11:19 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? R. Belmont  01/05/12 12:21 AM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? grobda  01/13/12 06:14 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? R. Belmont  01/21/12 01:32 AM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? B2K24  01/26/12 02:00 AM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? R. Belmont  02/24/12 07:03 PM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? B2K24  03/02/12 01:00 AM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? grobda  01/21/12 02:12 AM Re: Open Source/Copy Left Hardware Mame on an FPGA ? grobda  01/05/12 04:12 AM

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