Zet processor

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What is Zet?

Zet processor is an open implementation of the so widely used IA-32 architecture (generally called x86). This project is very new but it can be synthesized in a configurable device such an FPGA or CPLD, or made as a custom ASIC. Two FPGA boards are currently supported: Xilinx ML403 and Altera DE1.

Playing Dune 2 in MS-DOS running on the Zet Platform. See some other Pictures.
Playing Dune 2 in MS-DOS running on the Zet Platform. See some other Pictures.
This project is quite complex and is in a very early stage of development. Only the 16-bit part (ie. the 8086/80186) is supported, see Zet status for more information. It can boot successfully MS-DOS 6.22, FreeDOS 1.1 and run Microsoft Windows 3.0.

Try it!

If you have one of the boards mentioned above, you can just try it by following the simple steps shown in the Installation guide. It's very easy and straightforward!!

Download the source and participate

Image:Download-icon.png Version 1.1.2:
   In tar.bz2 format: Zet-1.1.2.tar.bz2
   In zip format: Zet-1.1.2.zip

News

  • 28-March-2010. The git repository is being hosted now publicly at GitHub, so it is easier now to browse the source code of the project.



  • 1-Feb-2010. It's time to play games like Dune 2, Gods or Lemmings!! Three VGA graphical modes have been added: 640x350, 320x200 with 16 colors and 320x200 with 256 colors in chained four representation. Some other major improvements have been added: increased x8 SD card access speed, high performance memory controller, wishbone switch and asynchronous bridges added.

You may want to browse the source at github.

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