Chip8-SystemVerilog

Implemented a Chip8 Emulator in SystemVerilog meant to run on an Altera SoCKit Cyclone V board

Software

• Quartus 13.1
• Cyclone V Device Drivers
• Linaro Linux

Setup

Follow the following two tutorials to get linux running on the SoCKit board

• Linaro Linux Setup
• Creating u-boot-scr

Then copy the code in chip8-sw to the device and compile it there by calling make. Open Quartus and compile the Chip8.qpf project. Using the programmar load the sockit_top.sof file onto the device and boot the version of linux installed on the sd card. To install the chip8-sw:

make
insmod chip8.ko
./chip8 <chip8_file>

Where a chip8 file is a .chip8 rom file found on many websites.

Running

The controls for the chip8 are:

+---------+
| 1 2 3 4 |
| q w e r |
| a s d f |
| z x c v |
+---------+

The display will be outputted via the VGA port on the SoCKit board and is controlled using a USB Keyboard plugged into the board. To pause the game press 'p', to start a rom file press 'enter', and to load a new file press 'l'.