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<p style="font-size: xx-large; margin: 0;">Homebrew CPU Wiki</p>
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This main page is mostly a placeholder for now.
This main page is mostly a placeholder for now.<br>
To get editing permission, create an account and ping immibis on IRC. irc.libera.chat #cpudev
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<div style="font-weight: bold; background-color: #ffe7d6; margin: 0; border: solid 1px #ffddc6; padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em;">Major components and concepts</div>
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{{Box|title=Getting started|
Essential knowledge:
* [[Introduction to digital logic]]
* [[Binary arithmetic]]
* [[How a computer works]]
Designing and simulating a CPU:
* [[Getting started - Logisim]]
* [[Getting started - FPGAs]]
Building a CPU in real life:
* [[Electronics primer]]
* [[Getting started - logic chips]]
* [[Getting started - transistor circuits]]
* [[Getting started - relay circuits]]
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{{Box|title=Basic CPU design|
Important design considerations:
* [[Programmer's model]]
* [[Harvard vs Von Neumann]]
* [[RISC vs CISC]]
* [[Number of bits]]
Hardware design:
* [[Instruction encoding]]
* [[Data path]]
* [[ALU]]
* [[Control unit]]
* [[Control unit]]
* [[ALU]]
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* [[Memory bus]]
{{Box|title=Software|
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* [[Emulator]]
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* [[Assembly language]]
<div style="font-weight: bold; background-color: #ffe7d6; margin: 0; border: solid 1px #ffddc6; padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em;">Performance optimizations</div>
* [[C language]]
* [[Prefetching]]
* [[Forth language]]
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{{Box|title=Advanced topics|
Instruction set extensions:
* [[Exceptions and interrupts]]
* [[Floating-point unit]]
* [[Virtual memory]]
Performance tricks:
* [[Instruction prefetching]]
* [[Pipelining]]
* [[Branch prediction]]
* [[Data cache]]
* [[Out-of-order execution]]
* [[Out-of-order execution]]
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* [[Register renaming]]
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<div style="font-weight: bold; background-color: #ffe7d6; margin: 0; border: solid 1px #ffddc6; padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em;">Implementation technology</div>
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* [[FPGA]]
 
* [[7400 series logic]]
{{Box|title=Logic references|
* [[Discrete transistor logic]]
** [[CMOS]]
** [[TTL]]
* [[Relay logic]]
* [[Relay logic]]
* [[Exotic logic families]]
* [[Logic level reference]]
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* [[Logic chip reference]]
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{{Box|title=External interfaces|
* [[UART]]
* [[I2C]] / [[SPI]]
* [[VGA]]
* [[PS/2]] (mouse and keyboard)
* [[Ethernet]]
* [[USB]]
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{{Box|title=CPU projects|
* [https://www.bigmessowires.com/bmow1/ Big Mess of Wires]
* [http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ Magic-1]
* [http://megaprocessor.com/ Megaprocessor]
* [https://monster6502.com/ Monster 6502]
* [https://relaycomputer.co.uk/pages/overview.html Paul Law's relay computer]
* [http://zipcpu.com/about/zipcpu.html ZipCPU]
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Latest revision as of 17:43, 6 July 2021

Homebrew CPU Wiki

This main page is mostly a placeholder for now.
To get editing permission, create an account and ping immibis on IRC. irc.libera.chat #cpudev


Basic CPU design

Important design considerations:

Hardware design:



External interfaces