Building A Microcontroller From Scratch: The B4 Thinker Project
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[Marius Taciuc’s] latest endeavor, the B4 Thinker, offers a captivating glimpse into microcontroller architecture through a modular approach. This proof-of-concept project is meticulously doc…
  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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    About 10 years ago, I challenged myself with this. What if the entire knowledge of how to build a computer or a microcontroller would suddenly disappear? Would I be able to build a simple MCU architecture from scratch? I mean, most of the HW developers these days are able to draw the schematic of a logical gate using BJT or MOSFET transistors. People are usually able to make the transition from simple semiconductor components to logical gate structures. How about 2 or 3 levels up for creating an entire ALU architecture or even further: an entire CPU?[1]

    1. [1] https://hackaday.io/project/197242-b4-thinker-4-bit-homebrewed-computer ↩︎