<div dir="auto">There is a series on YouTube by Ben Eater where he builds a micro coded 8bit CPU using standard TTL. I have followed along and built my own variation and upgraded memory to 256 bytes and designed a few other devices that work with it, including a typewriter interface</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I should bring it along next meeting if you want to check it out</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 21:54, Charles Manning <<a href="mailto:cdhmanning@gmail.com">cdhmanning@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All</div><div><br></div><div>All this talk today of smaller computers led me to have a bit of a nosey into what's happening in the "crazy CPU world".</div><div><br></div><div>Have any of you looked at this wee CPU?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://gigatron.io" target="_blank">https://gigatron.io</a></div><div><br></div><div>Apart from the ROM and RAM the whole thing is just 74xx logic - 36 74xxs in all (including the oscillator)..<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is a very barebones - 8 bit CPU but with some interesting twists.</div><div>* Each instruction is 16 bits - 8 bit instruction coding and 8 bits immediate.<br></div><div>* 16-bit Harvard address space: 32kx16 ROM, 32k RAM.</div><div>* 8 bit accumulator, X and Y registers.<br></div><div><br></div><div>They have a software simulator for it that is less than 130 lines long.</div><div><br></div><div>Let the small times roll!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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