Wow, it has been some time since my last site update :)

However, I have been quite active these last months, as I started to work on a new project : emulate a Micronique Hector HRX in a FPGA.
The Hector family of computers were manufactured in the 80s. They were based on a Z80 microprocessor, and some 7400 series chips for the most. No ASIC of any kind :)

Below you can see a picture of the system running :

Hectorlus

More important than the project itself, here is the associated documentation (in French) (8MB PDF file) which contains a rather complete analysis of this machine. I think it's something worth reading for a beginner (provided he/she can read French).

For the moment, only ROM/RAM/CPU and video stuff is implemented, but I will add at least keyboard input soon. Once the project is finished, I will release its source files as well as an updated version of the documentation (and an English translation).

For more general information about these computers, please visit this page which contains very useful information (and helped me a lot for this work).