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All other trademarks mentioned in this document or website are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. R 2. 01. 6 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Table of Contents                                                              Executive Summary. Solution Overview. Introduction. 7. Audience. Tool.PNG' alt='Compact Flash Clone Software' title='Compact Flash Clone Software' />Smart. Stack Program Benefits. Smart. Stack System Overview. Compact Flash Clone Software' title='Compact Flash Clone Software' />Technical Overview. Cisco Unified Compute System. Cisco UCS Differentiators. Cisco UCS 5. 10. 8 Blade Server Chassis. Cisco UCS 6. 20. 0 Series Fabric Interconnects. Cisco UCS 6. 30. 0 Series Fabric Interconnects. Cisco UCS Fabric Extenders. Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco UCS B Series M4 Servers. Cisco UCS C Series M4 Servers. Cisco UCS Performance Manager. Ultimate Victory Chamillionaire Zip. Cisco Nexus 9. 00. Series Platform Switches. Cisco Nexus 1. 00. Series Switches. 2. Cisco MDS 9. 10. 0 Series Fabric Switches. Nimble Storage AF7. All Flash Array. 2. Solution Architecture. Solution Design. 3. Compute. 3. 7LAN Network. Storage and SAN Network. Design Considerations. Management Connectivity. Qo. S and Jumbo Frames. Cisco UCS C Series Server Connectivity Options. Cisco UCS Server v. Sphere Configuration. Cisco UCS Server Virtual Switching using Cisco Nexus 1. V Optional4. 3Cisco Nexus 9. Series v. PC Best Practices. High Availability. Scalability. 5. 1Validation. Validated Hardware and Software. Bill of Materials BOM5. Summary. 6. 0About Authors. Compact Flash Clone Software' title='Compact Flash Clone Software' />Acknowledgements. Cisco Validated Designs CVD are systems and solutions that have been designed, tested and documented to facilitate and accelerate customer deployments. J-Link/J-Link_EDU_shadow_500.png' alt='Compact Flash Clone Software' title='Compact Flash Clone Software' />Xiaomi, often referred to as Chinas Apple is seen as the leading clone manufacturer of Apples iPhone. There are similarities, but if you put any two. The Internet of Things with ESP32 the WiFi and Bluetooth system on a chipThese designs incorporate a wide range of technologies and products into a portfolio of solutions that have been developed to address the business needs of a customer. CVDs deliver a validated design, documentation and support information to guide customers from design to deployment. Cisco and Nimble Storage have partnered to deliver a series of Smart. Stack solutions that combine Cisco Unified Computing System servers, Cisco Nexus family of switches, and Nimble Storage arrays into a single, flexible architecture. Smart. Stack solutions are pre designed, integrated and validated architectures for the data center. Customers looking to solve business problems using shared data center infrastructure face a number of challenges. A perennial infrastructure challenge is to achieve the levels of IT agility and efficiency that is necessary to meet business objectives. Addressing these challenges requires having an optimal solution with the following characteristics          Availability Helps ensure applications and services are accessible at all times with no single point of failure         Flexibility Ability to support new services without requiring infrastructure modifications         Efficiency Facilitate efficient operation of the infrastructure through re usable policies and API management         Manageability Ease of deployment and management to minimize operating costs         Scalability Ability to expand and grow with some degree of investment protection          Compatibility Minimal risk by ensuring optimal design and compatibility of integrated components. Smart. Stack enables a data center platform with the above characteristics by delivering an integrated architecture that incorporates compute, storage and network design best practices. Smart. Stack minimizes IT risks by testing the integrated architecture to ensure compatibility between the integrated components. Smart. Stack also addresses IT pain points by providing documented design guidance, deployment guidance and support that can be used in all stages planning, designing and implementation of a deployment. The Smart. Stack solution outlined in this document delivers a converged infrastructure platform designed for Enterprise and Cloud data centers. Smart. Stack incorporates compute, network and storage best practices to deliver a resilient, scalable and flexible data center architecture. The design uses Cisco UCS servers for compute, VMware v. Sphere 6. 0. U2 hypervisor, Cisco Nexus and Cisco MDS switches for network and a Fibre Channel attached Nimble AF7. Smart. Stack is pre designed, validated integrated infrastructure architecture for the data center. Smart. Stack solution portfolio combines Nimble Storage arrays, Cisco UCS servers, Cisco MDS fabric switches and Cisco Nexus switches into a single, flexible architecture. Smart. Stack solutions are designed and validated to minimize deployment time, project risk, and overall IT costs. Smart. Stack is designed for high availability, with no single points of failure while maintaining cost effectiveness and flexibility in design to support a variety of workloads in Enterprise and cloud data centers. F1. 8A FPGA Based TMS9. A Code Hack. The TI 9. A Master Title Screen on a VGA LCD monitor. Development Journal Index The FPGA Development Board September 7, 2. FPGA Education, Books, and Community February 1, 2. Learn VHDL or Verilog February 5, 2. Making Boards July 1. F1. 8A PRE ORDERS OpenFebruary 9, 2. F1. 8A Features July 2. Mounting the F1. 8A VGA Connector July 2. F1. 8A Programming Introduction July 2. F1. 8A Pinout January 2. F1. 8A In System Update December 1. F1. 8A Firmware Update August 2. F1. 8A stands for FPGA TMS9. A hence the projects title and will be 1. TMS9. 91. 8A VDP video display processor. I started this project for a few reasons For some reason, I have always wanted to make my own video card. I have an emotional attachment to the TI 9. A Home Computer since it was my first computerI wanted to be able to use a standard VGA monitor with my 9. A instead of a TV or composite monitor. I wanted to get into, and learn about, FPGAs and an HDL hardware description languageI always wanted to make my own integrated circuits chips and understand how they work on the inside. There are some things about the TMS9. A that I wanted to fix. The initial goals were lofty and I have since trimmed them back to something I can accomplish in a decent amount of time 1 year or so and still balance life, family, kids, etc. I also just started documenting this project after working on it for about 5 or 6 months, so Ill be making catch up posts for a while. After having worked on the design for about 4 months, these are the goals that I think I can manage in the 1. Be pin compatible with the original TMS9. A VDP, i. e. a direct replacement in any existing computer. Be 1. 00 compatible in functionality. Support standard VGA monitors currently 6. Add a 9. 93. 8 compatible 8. Add a few additional video resolutions to better support remaking arcade games. Increase the color palette to 5. Remove the access window limitations for full on high speed access to VDP RAM all the time. Increase VDP RAM to at least 5. K, but probably 1. MB in the end. Allow all 3. Add flags to flip sprites horizontally and vertically. Some additional features Im kicking around are Support a dedicated hardware mouse and USBPS2 keyboard. Provide a single cycle 3. Mersenne Twister random number generator. Dual screen output great for 2 player head to head gamesAdd horizontal and vertical scroll registers. Provide hardware support for virtual screens with scrollable playfields. A true bitmap layer. Enhanced tile map that supports larger pattern tables, colors, flip x and y, etc. Some of these extra features appeared in the later Yamaha 9. VDPs.   However the Yamaha chips are rare and details documentation has proven very hard to find. Some of the features, like the Mersenne Twister are on the list because the VHDL to add that support is already available as an open source project and all I would have to do it tie it into the VDP. Generating random numbers on an older computer is a hard and time consuming task, but the FPGA could generated a new 3. RNG every clock cycle. Something else I need to point out is that Im running the FPGA at 1. MHz, so I have the luxury of adding enhancements that the original chip simply can not do, like displaying all 3. VDP access window problem. This has great potential for new games, as well as eliminating sprite flicker in existing games. Since this introduction post is 5 months over due, Ill list here what I have working so far Original 2. VGA monitor. All 4 video modes Graphics I, Graphics II, Multicolor, Text. Full speed CPU interface no delays due to access windows1. K VDP RAM using the FPGAs block RAMPhysical drop in replacement via a socket of the original 9. AThe list of things to complete before I think v. Implement sprites. Add undocumented hybrid graphic modes. Add the 9. 93. 8 compatible 8. Change VRAM to use an external SRAM instead of the FPGAs block RAMChange to 8. Design, order, and build the prototype circuit board. Progress was moving along pretty good until the summer months and life got busy again. I hope to get moving on this list soon Last I want to mention that an important aspect of this project is compatibility and availability. Even though Im doing this first and foremost for myself, I would like to think that other people with interest in systems like the 9. A, Coleco. Vision, and MSX1 would also have a large interest in having this hardware available. I intend to make this project compatible with existing systems, and I intent to make it readily available to those who want it, i. Testing the F1. 8A on an MSX1. MSX1 BASIC on the F1. AMSX diskview running in 4. MSX diskview running in forced 8.