Design Your Very Own Microprocessor

LightJockey writes: "CircuitCellar has a great article on designing and building your own microprocessor using FPGAs and openly available processor designs, ranging from ARM and MIPS based to custom designs, and even a couple SPARC based chips, and also a really cool 'processor toaster,' start with a base processor design, and using a webpage to select upgraded components, it spits out the VHDL file you need to create it. Brings garage hackerdom up to a whole new level!"

Comments

Processor toaster?

[AlaskanUnderachiever]

That's nothing new. I've been toasting processors for years now. All you need is any AMD chip, a failed heat sink, and 30 seconds of Half Life.

Don't allow whoever designed emacs to get ahold ..

[linzeal]

The damn thing would incorporate circuitry for a garage door opener, a missile guidance system, and would have all 20 megs of emacs stored in microcode.

This type of thing needs to be outlawed.

[Anonymous Coward]

Only properly government licensed and monitored programmers and technical people should be allowed to work on such technology as the potential for using this technology to violate the DMCA exists. Anyone who disagrees with this is a terrorist.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Re:Don't allow whoever designed emacs to get ahold

[ActiveSX]

It's a Free fortress. Open fortresses are a different movement.

MMIX

[Merlin42]

So when can we expect to see actual MMIX hardware?