vgagame wrote on 2025-04-03, 11:48:

I am interested in studying 8 or 16 but assembly code and I wonder if anyone ever uses an FPGA to study assembly code.

i think out there in the professional arena its all specialised tools, here are a couple of links:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/programming-an-fpga/all
https://hackaday.com/2019/11/01/symbiflow-ope … fpga-toolchain/

i'm not sure if assembly, as we know it, is used, perhaps some microcode approach

https://hackaday.io/project/172073-microcodin … -fpga-toolchain

i don't know much about it, i found those links while looking into it - seems an interesting challenge you have set for yourself!

If you want to study 6/17 bit assembly then why not consider the z80, 6502 or 8086 or something along those lines? there is a vast history of code to get into, and books etc

Yes. I feel more comfortable with the 8-bit micros like the z80, 6502, and most importantly the 8086. I thought maybe to study assembly code for those devices one needed an FPGA based system like a TRS-80 or the commodore 64. I was hoping to focus on just the assembly code of one of those microprocessors and not deal in hardware description languages.