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Design Your Very Own Microprocessor

Posted by chrisd on from the gated-community dept.

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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  1. home grown processors? by Jacer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    just imagine a a cluster of these!

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  2. No thanks... by kentyman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...I just took my Computer Architecture final last Wednesday. If I passed (by the grace of God) then I'm never thinking about MIPS again.

    kentyman

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  3. Re:MMIX by Usquebaugh · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Oh please mod this up and pretend you have a clue :-)

  4. Re:/.ed allready by Thing+1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    (Moderators: I know this is off-topic to the story, but it is on-topic to the discussion. And to the site in general. And I'm posting with no +1 bonus. Thanks.)
    Since most articles are /.ed as soon as they are posted. I think a great feature for subscribers would be a mirror to each article that is hosted on slashdot.

    In a separate response to your post, I said I was working on Perl code to mirror stories' articles.

    It's not complete yet; right now it grabs the /. page and splits it into stories, then splits each story into links. Then it prints each link.

    The next part is to load each link (and images? What about multi-page articles?), and cache it somewhere. Then update the /. page, replacing each link mirrored with the mirrored location.

    I know the lameness filter won't allow posting of code, so here is the script.

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  5. Re:YASPR by fliptout · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Uhh, I think he was making a Southpark reference...

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