Someone at Intel likes ZDoom

Intel published a paper on how they made the Atom processor FPGA-synthesizable. I doubt many of you have access to it, but here's the link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1508128.1508160.

Anyway, I was reading through it and came across Figure 9:

Hah, that's awesome!

That's really cool; it also amuses me to be showing off 2011 tech with a 1993 game :P

chungy said:

That's really cool; it also amuses me to be showing off 2011 tech with a 1993 game :P

The processor is also running at a mere 50MHz.

Looks like someone at Microsoft does also :) Check out the "Giano" demo from MS Research and watch what happens when you boot it up:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/02e2edbf-c76c-47d5-b9c0-2c9915c63e98/

Awesome awesome triple awesome.

FPGA-written processor that runs Doom... Now I really need to learn how to port Doom!!

I like that they use "pause"

exp(x) said:

The processor is also running at a mere 50MHz.

Lol 6.3 MHz Bus? Now THAT'S fucked up ;-)

It reminds me of a guy who had:

• 386 mobo...
  
• ...with 486 pin-compatible socket extender...
  
• ...with some fucked up 486DX120/4 or somesuch
  
• ...in a system with just ISA slots (8 MHz, 16-bit witdh).
  

This system was extremely asymmetric in performance: it could outperform an early Pentium in pure number crunching, but it sucked ass for anything using the VGA.

I take that they needed 5 or more minutes to boot even a minimal Windows XP/2000 into that configuration, even with plenty of RAM to spare?

@printz: more like FPGA design and programming ;-) There actually IS a C-to-FPGA converter somewhere, so in theory you could literally program a FPGA with the sole purpose of running Doom, after you took care of the interfacing issues). It would not be a general-purpose CPU running Doom in an embedded system, it would literally be Doom-on-a-chip.

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dannebubinga said:

I like that they use "pause"

ZDoom does that automatically when its window loses focus.

Trilinear said:

Looks like someone at Microsoft does also :)

Well obviously, considering Bill Gates used E1M2 to advertise some version of Windows or something at some point.

I almost asked how you know it is ZDoom. I am a dumbass.

Maes said:

Lol 6.3 MHz Bus? Now THAT'S fucked up ;-)

Wait until you see what they did to the Nehalem: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1723112.1723116. The core was split across 5 FPGAs and runs at 520 kHz.

There actually IS a C-to-FPGA converter somewhere, so in theory you could literally program a FPGA with the sole purpose of running Doom, after you took care of the interfacing issues). It would not be a general-purpose CPU running Doom in an embedded system, it would literally be Doom-on-a-chip.

http://www.mentor.com/esl/catapult/overview