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| lavrentii wrote: | Really an amazing work, it is always e pleasure to watch the development of such masterful work!
You speak about the user having the option to access CPU registers etc. So will the be a possibility to run custom assembly code on the tested CPU? |
Absolutely.
The tool chain is quite easy :
1/ compile code (I use the wonderful sbasm)
2/ convert the binary to a Xilinx compliant .MEM file (I use srec_cat)
3/ Inject the .MEM file inside the FPGA .bit file (with Xilinx's data2mem.exe)
4/ Upload the bit file to the UCA's Flash (or directly to the FPGA) with the UCA Analyzer Tool.
I have a simple .bat to do these steps from command line.
Technically, it's also possible to alter directly the memory (right now, I added an option to read memory content on the fly)
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:39 am Post subject: |
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Sound great!
It would be nice if you provide a detailed instruction with an example for people inexperienced with FPGAs. Not now of course - in the future. Keep up the good work! |
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xsecret
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:16 am Post subject: Final Universal Chip Analyzer disclosed! |
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After 2 months working on the final hardware, changing dozen of PCBs and soldering like crazy, I'm happy to disclose the final "production" UCA! I finally redesigned the base FPGA board to add some future-proof feature like an ARM-based MCU (much more powerful than the original AVR), an USB-C connector, 512 Mb Flash, and more!
Everything is described here : https://x86.fr/final-universal-chip-analyzer-disclosed/ 
I'm now looking for a last "final" betatester. As assembling all boards by hand takes hours, I can only choose one (besides John). If you're interested and follow these conditions:
1. Having time to spend (testing a lot of CPU and reporting issues is long)
2. Having a quite big collection of different chips from the 70s to mid-90 (486s) era, especially with rare IC
3. Living in the EU (Much faster to send new prototypes if needed)
please let me know!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| That's great news! |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 1:21 pm Post subject: Experimental Pentium Overdrive testing with the UCA |
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When I designed the Universal Chip Analyzer, the goal was to be able to test everything from the 4004 to the 486 DX4-100 (and CPUs sharing the same pinout like AMD/Cyrix 5×86).
Any Pentium-class CPU was out of scope due to physical limitation. Even if the UCA architecture can probably handle them from an electrical point of view, the size of adapters is just too small for the 200+ pins Socket needed for a Socket 4 or 5.
Even the Socket 3 used by Pentium Overdrive on the PCB can’t fit between the two connectors. So P5 support on the UCA looked really impossible.
Really? Wait a minute… 
Story continues here: https://x86.fr/experimental-pentium-overdrive-testing-with-the-uca/
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Very cool!
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Very nice!
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It will mostly be used to determine function status, instruction set support, and cpuid. So it will be useful for these, too.  |
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| That's great news, can't wait to use it. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:08 pm Post subject: All PGA 386s benchmarked with the UCA |
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All PGA 386s benchmarked with the UCA
The C&T Super386 being the last of the PGA 386-compatible CPUs ever released to be supported by the Universal Chip Analyzer, it was time to publish some benchmarks! The current integrated benchmark uses a lot of standard x86 operations (mov, add, conditional and unconditional jumps, …) and integer math instructions (add, sub, div, mult). Keep in mind that the UCA can achieve a 0-wait-states-everywhere communication with the CPU, nullifying any added latencies from chipset, RAM, or whatever. The results below are 100% linked to the raw CPU power without any limitation from the subsystem.
More: https://x86.fr/all-pga-386s-benchmarked-with-the-uca/
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