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Very cool! For those of us less versed in FPGA, do you have an idea of how many transistors would be required to build this CPU? I have long been curious abou
by cellularmitosis 6y ago
Very cool! For those of us less versed in FPGA, do you have an idea of how many transistors would be required to build this CPU? I have long been curious about the minimum number of transistors needed to build the smallest "useful" CPU.
- howerj 6y agoI do not think I could give an accurate conversion between FPGA Slices and transistors myself, it is certainly small (23 slices) and processors with similar capabilities ran in thousands of transistors/tubes range. You should look into more esoteric processors such as Forth CPUs, other bit-serial CPUs, CPUs built around single instructions (such as SUBLEQ) and new CPUs built out of 7400 series parts.