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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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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist psot MUTHAFUCKA

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thanks for the "First Post Got Anonymous". How do I build my own microprocessor using FPGAs again?

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

    just imagine a a cluster of these!

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    1. Re:home grown processors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Kinda makes you pissed off you have been running inferior chips all these years. Can we get a refund for being sold crap hardware. The Bill Gates years a dark deep cesspool when shit was king. Bill Gates has done more to harm innovation in the computer sphere then can be measured. Years from now history will record the No Good Bastard for The Greedy Son Of A Bitch he was. By the way Bill Gates cannot code just get a copy of windows and see :)

  3. Doodydoody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Poo poo pants are fun to make a big kaka in all the time are fun got poopoo

    ai tempfile /1/1.a

    bot post

  4. Woohoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First!

  5. Holy crap, that's amazing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All your base are belong to us!!!

  6. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No comments and already slashdotted.

    you will never learn!!!

  7. word up nigga. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YO! word 2 that fp shit.

    I is smokin' some blunt spliff this morning.

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    keep it reel dog.

  8. Re:Amateur chip designers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love how stating the obvious is garnering you upwards mods.

    Water is wet! Mod me up!

  9. CmdrTaco is a flag desecrator and Anti-Delawarian! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    As noted on the Smithsonian Institution's site, the first official American flag had thirteen stars and thirteen stripes, each representing one of the thirteen original states.

    The flag icon for Slashdot's 'United States' section is missing its first stripe - the stripe that represents Delaware, the first state admitted to the Union. While a simple oversight could be forgiven, it should be known from here on out that Slashdot is in fact aware of the missing stripe, and even worse, refuses to do anything about it!

    This vulgar flag desecration and rabid anti-Delawarism must be put to a stop. Let the Slashdot crew know that we will not accept a knowingly mutilated flag or the insinuation that Delawarians deserve to be cut out of the union. I ask you, what has Delaware done to deserve this insolence, this wanton disregard, this bigotry?

    This intentional disregard of a vital national symbol is unpatriotic. Why, the flippant remarks CmdrTaco made about our flag border on terrorism! I urge you to join the protest in each 'United States' story. Sacrifice your karma for your country by pointing out this injustice. Let's all work together to get our flag back. Can you give your country any less?

  10. 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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  11. Re:CmdrTaco is a flag desecrator and Anti-Delawari by sofist · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes I agree rest stops are REALY nice, but thats all what is nice in Delawere... ;)

  12. Troll, heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Having passed through Delaware several times in my life and used the facilities provided by the great state, I've got to agree with you. Delaware's rest stops are some of the best maintained stops in the country. (Another good state is Louisiana, very pretty.)

    Troll? Nah, Offtopic maybe. ;)

  13. I got an idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got a better idea: Make your own web server! Slashdot will toast it for ya...

  14. You need to be RAPED. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hope a big old nigger rams his big throbbing cock up your ass so hard you die of hemhorridge!

  15. You need to be brutally FUCKED in the EYE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You desperately need an AIDS infested San Franciscan faggot to fuck your eyes out with his pencil cock.

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

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

  17. Re:!funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, you're not that funny. We already knew that.

  18. Chapter 1 - The Pipe Line Opens by Great+Literature+of · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is part of the Great Literature of Slashdot series.

    [Part 1]

    With its two fighting claws held forward like a wrestler's arms, the big pandenus scorpion emerged with a dry rustle from the finger-sized hole under the rock.

    There was a small patch of hard flat earth outside the hole, and the scorpion stood in the centre of this on the tips of its four pairs of legs, its nerves and muscles braced for a quick retreat and its senses questing for the minute vibrations which would decide its next move.

    The moonlight, glittering down through the great thornbush, threw sapphire highlights off the hard black polish of the six-inch body and glinted palely on the moist white sting which protruded from the last segment of the tail, now curved over parallel with the scorpion's flat back.

    Slowly the sting slid home into its sheath and the nerves in the poison sac at its base relaxed. The scorpion had decided. Greed had won over fear.

    Twelve inches away, at the bottom of a sharp slope of sand, the small beetle was concerned only with trudging on towards better pastures than he had found under the thornbush, and the swift rush of the scorpion down the slope gave him no time to open his wings. The beetle's legs waved in protest as the sharp claw snapped around his body, and then the sting lanced into him from over the scorpion's head and immediately he was dead.

    After it had killed the beetle, the scorpion stood motionless for nearly five minutes. During this time it identified the nature of its prey and again tested the ground and the air for hostile vibrations. Reassured, its fighting claw withdrew from the half severed beetle and its two small feeding pincers reached out and into the beetle's flesh. Then for an hour, and with extreme fastidiousness, the scorpion ate its victim.

  19. Tell me what I'm missing... by K5+Diary+Update · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Everyone's ranting and raving about 'The Osbournes'. American "Oh my God!! Waaaay cool" hype or a seriously good programme? Definately the latter. 'The Osbournes' hasn't been packaged and dispatched to the UK yet and I hope it never will be. If it does, I hope they show it when I'm asleep at 3am or something.

    So, everyone's ranting and raving about it. What people are ranting and raving about is slightly ambiguous. Nevertheless, it's President Bush's favourite show. I'm not sure what that says about President Bush either. I think it says he's a dumb prick with a small throat (that can't swallow pretzels in the normal way).

    Anyway, I don't like passing judgement on something without experiencing it for myself, so I downloaded it. For those of you who don't know, "The Osbournes" is another daft reality tv wankfest featuring Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath) and his family in their swank Beverley Hills home. Nothing escapes the gaze of the viewer; Ozzy might be an evil, dark, macabre character that likes loud guitars but families go through the same stuff the world over.

    I go to Kazaa and pick episode one. I figure it's the best place to start being the first episode and everything. It was in excess of 30meg and for a dial-up user that's some serious bandwidth commitment. I ask myself over and over, 'Do I really want to devot my precious bandwidth to this file?' - My tired mind overrides my better judgement and I do it. A certain random Kazaa user is the 'straw that breaks the camel's back', so to speak, when he tells me, 'Man! This is my favourite show ever! download it.. omggh!!! fskin' get it!!!'. I begin the download then go to sleep (trying very hard, despite the monosyllabic groan of my computer).

    I wake up and leap to my feet in anticipation of getting to see this great show. I mean, if Bush likes it, I'll surely like it! I switch the monitor on and recite 'Hail Mary' at least three times, hoping that there's been no cock-up (connection dying). Phew - It downloaded.

    As you can imagine, it was a huge anti-climax. Exactly how much of an anti-climax is hard to articulate. Think of a treasured sexual organ being driven over by an SUV, or rolled upon by a morbidly obese woman and you'll understand.

    This show is shit. It's CRAP! My God this show soooo blows, my friends. I mean, 'it blows' (suitably long pause), 'my friends'. This show doesn't blow my friends per se.

    Ozzy Osbourne is a degenerative, inarticulate slob. Centuries of heavy metal and heavy drinking have rightfully had their toll on this man. I don't recall him constructing one parsable sentence throughout. His mind is totally wasted and he isn't the man he likes to make out he is on stage. Ozzy Osbourne doesn't live in a crypt and I for one am disappointed. His kids are privately educated and take precocious satisfaction in letting their parents know how smart they are. Ozzy can't even work out how to work satellite tv - what a moron.

    On behalf of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and her Commonwealth, I implore that you, the United States of America, stop sending us your crap television. Well, okay, some of it can come in (like the Sopranos) but the rest stays out! OUT! O.U.T spells out!

    Anyway, I'm drunk. Bye Bye

    POLL

    Osbournes

    • Shite
    • Feckin' shite
    • It's good (and I have carnal knowledge of sheep)
  20. 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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  21. Re:YASPR by fliptout · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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