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!"

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Amateur chip designers

[ObviousGuy]

Without training and experience in hardware design at the college level, it is doubtful that any amateur could come up with a design that improved on existing chip designs or create a fundamentally new design that would be of interest to chip companies.

The hope springs eternal, though.