Snake on Nios II Assembly

Snake game in pure Nios II assembly, running on the Gecko4Education FPGA board against the multicycle Nios II processor from lecture. The 8×12 LED matrix is the display. Head and tail coordinates, score, and food position live at fixed memory addresses (HEAD_X at 0x1000, etc.). Button input is memory-mapped at 0x2030. Every time the score crosses a multiple of 10, the whole game state is snapshotted into a checkpoint region. Pressing the checkpoint button restores it. Tested in nios2sim and on real hardware.

CS-208 Computer Architecture at EPFL.