If you did EE you had to write an entire CPU. It was implemented on an FPGA. It does not take too long. You can do it overnight or a few all nighters. It wasn't

If you did EE you had to write an entire CPU. It was implemented on an FPGA. It does not take too long. You can do it overnight or a few all nighters. It wasn't do complicated: a 2 or 3 stage pipeline, front end decoder, an PC counter, Registers etc. I don't think we did a MMU. Obviously it was trivial, but a good learning experience.