Turtle Board Sega Saturn SH2 based open source board

[david]

J-core J2 is an open source processor and SoC design implemented in VHDL, and using SH2 instruction set found in Sega Saturn back in 1995.
The developers used to run the code on Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA.They Planing to put Turtle Board on Kickstarter this year and hoping to continue to SH4 64bit version used in SegaDreamcast back in 1999-2003.

Turtle Board preliminary specifications:

FPGA – Xilinx Spartan 6 LS25 or LS45 FPGA
MCU – 8-bit Atmel MCU for load/update flash at power on.
Storage – micro SD slot, 8MB SPI flash
System memory – 256 MB RAM
Video & Audio Output – HDMI and AV jack
Connectivity – Ethernet
USB – 4x USB 2.0 ports
Expansion – 40-pin Raspberry Pi compatible header
Power Supply – 5V via micro USB port
Dimensions – Raspberry Pi 2/3 form factor


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