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EDSAC was one of the first modern computers, built in the late 1940s at the University of Cambridge using valve technology by Maurice Wilkes. This project is a reimagining in modern FPGA technology. It is not a simple emulator, but attempts to capture some of the physical spirit of EDSAC itself.
The main engineering work is by Hatim Kanchwala of the Indian Insitute of Technology, Patna, funded under the Google Summer of Code 2017 program. His mentors are Jeremy Bennett and Stefan Wallentowitz.
Collaborators are Mary Bennett, Peter Bennett and Dan Gorringe of Embecosm, who are incorporating Hatim's design into the ChipHack workshop to take place 6-8 September 2017 and are also building modern analogues of the hardware peripherals (mercury delay lines, teleprinter, paper tape reader, initial order switch bank).
The EDSAC program is being used on the second and third day of Chip Hack. The program for these two days includes using the program on a MyStorm board to recreate the prime numbers program, the recreation of peripherals in a cheap and easy way so that schools can make them too, and a variety of talks on EDSAC. For more information go to: https://github.com/embecosm/chiphack