hardware design

Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGAgithub.io

The author built zSST, a SystemVerilog recreation of the 3dfx Voodoo 1 graphics chip, and integrated it with a z486 CPU on a Xilinx KV260 to run DOS games with original 3D rendering at 100 MHz. The post details the fixed‑point pipeline, stage breakdown, and memory subsystem needed to sustain one pixel per clock.