JT51 Released

[jotego]

Today I release the verilog source of JT51, my YM2151 core. You can find it here.

I hope this helps bring more systems into the scene, particularly arcade games.

As a result of this development experience, I think I can do other FM synthesizers rather easily. Depending on the results of the poll on future systems which is running at the moment, I will decide which other Yamaha chips to replicate as verilog cores.

I know most people cannot do anything straight away with this, but hopefully this will get some developers moving towards full systems that we will all enjoy.

[sebdel]

That's awesome. I know nothing about that chip. Are there any tracker file format (like .ym for the 2149)?
Do you think it would be difficult to add it to a 8 bit core to test it?

[jotego]

There are modern trackers but I think that the most complete collection of tracker files are the .mdx files of the X68000. There are literally thousands of songs.

It is quite straightforward to connect it to an 8-bit core. I did connect it to the Atari ST core during the test phase.

[ericgus]

It is quite straightforward to connect it to an 8-bit core. I did connect it to the Atari ST core during the test phase.

Is this anything you could publish (the test core you used the ST with the Synth) ..

[vebxenon]

That's outstanding! Thanks for your great work!

Regards,

Salva

[Brt]

Well done! Thanks for Your contribution!

[Newsdee]

Maybe you can make a simple music player using the MiST OSD to pick a song file?

In any case, great job with getting this done. I checked your videos and it sounds great!

[jotego]

It is quite straightforward to connect it to an 8-bit core. I did connect it to the Atari ST core during the test phase.

Is this anything you could publish (the test core you used the ST with the Synth) ..

I have added a contra folder to the SVN repository in opencores so potential users can see how to connect the JT51 core to a CPU. That code contains the connection on the Contra and Double Dragon boards. I can always help with specific issues if someone finds a problem.

[ericgus]

It is quite straightforward to connect it to an 8-bit core. I did connect it to the Atari ST core during the test phase.

Is this anything you could publish (the test core you used the ST with the Synth) ..

I have added a contra folder to the SVN repository in opencores so potential users can see how to connect the JT51 core to a CPU. That code contains the connection on the Contra and Double Dragon boards. I can always help with specific issues if someone finds a problem.

Interesting but I was looking more for something I could just simply load into my MiST and try out. But I will look at that as part of my trying to learn how to create FPGA cores.

[tatouine]

Maybe you can make a simple music player using the MiST OSD to pick a song file?

In any case, great job with getting this done. I checked your videos and it sounds great!

Yes, a music player would be very great if you can develop it.

[sebdel]

2 questions:
- What clock frequency should I use ? As high as possible ?
- Do you emulate accurately the behavior of the (B)usy bit, i.e. does a register write really take up to 68 clocks ? (cf. page 7 of http://www.figment.biz/ServiceManuals/y ... thesis.pdf)