DIY Computer Project
Continuing my obsession with reading up on homebrew CPU projects, I found this incredible blog. Instead of just presenting the completed design, Dawid has presented intermediate posts about his project in progress, detailing some of the choices and techniques he had to make along the way. As is true of most projects like this, it’s hard to know how to get started and gain enough traction to make progress, and details like this can be really helpful and really inspiring.
Addendum: For instance, I’ve been considering writing a gate level simulator (writing code is something I feel comfortable doing) rather than spending huge amounts of time learning Verilog or VHDL. It is somewhat reassuring that Dawid apparently did the same thing. Very interesting.