Title :
Revisiting Atari 2600 on an FPGA
Author :
Flach, Guilherme ; Conceição, Calebe ; Johann, Marcelo ; Reis, Ricardo
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Inf., Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Abstract :
In this work we revisit the Atari 2600, the first widely popular home video game, recreating it on a programmable hardware. The console is designed from the scratch using the Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) and prototyped on an FPGA board. The analog television system is replaced by the VGA system without relying on a framebuffer. The project is full featured including joystick controls and audio.
Keywords :
computer games; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; Atari 2600; FPGA board; VGA system; Verilog hardware description language; audio; home video game; joystick controls; programmable hardware; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Games; Graphics; Hardware; Microprocessors; TV;
Conference_Titel :
Programmable Logic (SPL), 2012 VIII Southern Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bento Goncalves
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0184-8
DOI :
10.1109/SPL.2012.6211805
