{"id":1262,"date":"2016-05-14T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blg2\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2020-11-23T22:27:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:27:50","slug":"post-1256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"(Some of) Colossus on an FPGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a companion to <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=1241\">the previous post<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been working on and off for the past several months in a domain new to me: FPGAs. For some time I&#8217;ve been wondering about these devices, and the historical Colossus code-breaking computer provided a suitable project for learning more about them.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that I&#8217;ve created a partial implementation of the Colossus code-breaking machine on an FPGA. As in the previous post, this blog isn&#8217;t the best format to present the details, so please see the write-up here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bennorth.github.io\/fpga-colossus\/\">(Some of) Colossus in an FPGA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and the source here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bennorth\/fpga-colossus\/tree\/published\">Source repository<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For context, this is the Python worked example which I successfully replicated on the FPGA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/Dickens-Teleprinter\/index.html\">Replicating Colossus&#8217;s Chi-wheel setting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An implementation, on an FPGA, of the parts of the Colossus code-breaking computer needed to replicate the Chi-wheel-setting worked example of the previous post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfrontdoor.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}