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I'm building a Minecraft clone in hardware, on a tiny FPGA with 143kb of RAM

369 pointsby nickmqbover 4 years ago

11 comments

etaioinshrdluover 4 years ago
It looks like you&#x27;re using an ice40 FPGA?<p>If you can make your project work with 38 I&#x2F;O pins you could probably get it fabricated in ASIC by Efabless free. You just need to meet their repository requirements and make your verilog module conform to this interface: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;efabless&#x2F;caravel&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;verilog&#x2F;rtl&#x2F;user_proj_example.v" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;efabless&#x2F;caravel&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;verilog&#x2F;rtl&#x2F;...</a><p>The openlane tool converts your verilog all the way down to final ASIC design...<p>You&#x27;d need to license everything Apache 2.0 though. And it would have to be done soon, the deadline is Nov 30th.
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throwaway122kkover 4 years ago
This looks very good well done! Microsoft need to hire you for the team asap!<p>It always cracks me up playing minecraft on xbox one x and once your village hits few hundred villagers framerate (when running beta from insider it&#x27;s shown on screen) drops to like 3-4fps
makapufover 4 years ago
Wow, any details? Somme code ? A repo ? What graphical output? VGA or hdmi ? What input? This is very intriguing...
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young_unixerover 4 years ago
Are you using Minecraft&#x27;s textures? because those look very similar to Minecraft&#x27;s actual textures.
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takenpilotover 4 years ago
This is insane and I love it.
mentosover 4 years ago
How is the rendering performance with large worlds?
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b20000over 4 years ago
this is super awesome! did you build the raytracing stuff from the ground up?
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flatironover 4 years ago
Did you consider porting it to mister?
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MaxBarracloughover 4 years ago
Minecraft on 40mW. Very cool.
layoutIfNeededover 4 years ago
Wow, this is some Fabrice Bellard tier stuff! Very impressive!
vaccinatorover 4 years ago
a Minecraft clone in hardware means all code is hardware?
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