PDP 8 - douggilliland/Retro-Computers GitHub Wiki

Table of Contents PDP-8 Build of Tom Almy's PDP-8 FPGA (Working 2021-May) OpenCores PDP-8 Build Others PDP-8 FPGA PDP-8 Documents and Programming PiDP-8

• My PDP-8 Hardware GitHub repository
• History of the PDP-8
• Highgate's PDP-8 Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-lU59broa4

My build is based on Tom Almy's book The PDP-8 Class Project: Resoling An Old Machine.

• PDP-8 FPGA - Hackaday page with progress logs
• Hardware used
  • RETRO-EP4CE15 - FPGA Hardware used
    • QMTECH EP4CE15 FPGA Card
  • PDP-8 Front Panel
• FPGA Code
  • PDP-8 Almy book on GitHub
• My PDP-8 Software GitHub repository

• Hackaday page with progress logs
• Land Board OpenCores PDP-8 Builds - GitHub repository
  • RETRO-EP4CE15_CYCLONE_IV_VDU PDP-8 Build
    • Built in VDU with cpu_001 (IOP16B built-in) - Latest build
    • VDU IOP assembly code
  • RETRO-EP4CE15_CYCLONE_IV
    • Serial only (no VDU)
  • RETRO-EP4CE15_CYCLONE_V
    • WIP - missing pin assignment
• Hardware used
  • RETRO-EP4CE15 - FPGA Hardware used
    • QMTECH EP4CE15 FPGA Card
  • PDP-8 Front Panel
• opencores PDP-8 Processor Core and System Overview
  • Quickstart page

• Another Almy based design - In Verilog
• Yet another Almy based design
• PDP-8 in VHDL
• A FGPA Implementation of the PDP-8
• PDP-8/I on an FPGA
• PDP-8/i cpu with an RF08 disk emulator Uses a IDE disk as a backing store. It boots TSS/8.
• PDP-8 Instruction verification - In System Verilog?
• PDP8 in a Cypress PSoC5
• Scott Baker's PDP8-SOC - Clean VHDL Design

• Maintenance Manual - excellent document (pdf)
• PDP-8 - A Programmer's Reference Manual
  • The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 - Memory Reference Instructions
• PiPDP-8 Front Panel
• PDP-8/X System Reference Manual (pdf)
• Front Panel software
• pdp8online.com
• PDP-8 Assembly Language Studio
  • Conway’s Life Implemented in PDP-8 Assembly Language

• PiDP-8/I: RECREATING THE PDP-8/I - Obsolescence Guaranteed
• PiDP-8/I software development nexus