Jim Brakefield

One of the most exciting parts of learning VHDL or Verilog is creating a CPU of your own design.  Many college courses have this as a course project.  For others, it is a hobby.  Some designs have become widely used.  Some are used to implement early game machines. Some are commercial IP (Intellectual Property).  A soft-core processor can often be added to a FPGA project using spare chip capacity.

The speaker has gathered the source code of such designs and has completed a relatively complete classification of about 600 of them, with web links to a source repository where available (available at opencores.org/project,up_core_list).

Biography:

Assembly language programming on over a dozen processors
FPGA projects: small, medium and not that large
Circuit board design including microprocessors and FPGAs

BS & MS degrees from the University of Wisconsin (Madison)