It is a silicon implementation of Conway's Game of Life. The game is played on a 8x8 grid, and the rules are as follows:
Load initial grid row by row. Each row is loaded by selecting the row number (using the row_sel[2:0] inputs), setting the cell_in[7:0] inputs to the desired state, and pulsing the wr_en input.
Once the grid is loaded, set the en input to 1 to start the game. The game will advance one step in each clock cycle. To pause the game, set the en input to 0.
To view the current state of the grid, set the row_sel[2:0] inputs to the desired row number, and read the cell_out[7:0] outputs.
| # | Input | Output | Bidirectional |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | row_sel[0] | cell_out[0] | cell_in[0] |
| 1 | row_sel[1] | cell_out[1] | cell_in[1] |
| 2 | rol_sel[2] | cell_out[2] | cell_in[2] |
| 3 | cell_out[3] | cell_in[3] | |
| 4 | cell_out[4] | cell_in[4] | |
| 5 | cell_out[5] | cell_in[5] | |
| 6 | en | cell_out[6] | cell_in[6] |
| 7 | wr_en | cell_out[7] | cell_in[7] |