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How would someone get into designing/simulating CPUs and computers other than Minecraft? Is there any software for learning and implementing "simple" logic circ

How would someone get into designing/simulating CPUs and computers other than Minecraft? Is there any software for learning and implementing "simple" logic circuits, memory, etc?

yarolig 4y ago
Ben Eater have nice videos on youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater/videos There is a good https://nandgame.com/ https://nandgame.com/ You may want to use some simulating software like a verilog interpreters or logic simulators. I do not know a good one, I'm not a specialist it that stuff. And... If you have a couple of months to waste... You can try Factorio.
bismuthcrystal 4y ago
Sorry for being this rough but, what a naive question this is. Of course there is.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  It's expected that there are tools, clearly, since people seem to know how to do this kind of thing. Good tools that an interested beginner can use as a lab are another thing. If you skip back to the first question, then. It isn't naive. You chose to be short when you could have said nothing.
- Twisol 4y ago
  In natural language, asking "is there" is implicitly asking for more than just a truth value. It's expected that the response will include an example; a witness to the answer "yes". The indirection is considered polite and non-aggressive by many people. In particular, a direct question like "What software exists for this?" is sometimes met with a "Have you tried Google?", when the intent is also to get recommendations and not a pile of search results to evaluate as a newcomer. In this case, they got a rude answer anyway. I hardly think that's their fault though.
LelouBil 4y ago
Look at this game : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ Basically you go from building logic circuits to building your own CPU and writing assembly for it. I only added it to my wishlist, didn't try it yet.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  It doesn't explain things too well, but it gives answers and is iterative so I'll keep at it.
Bakary 4y ago
https://www.nand2tetris.org/ https://www.nand2tetris.org/ I would also start with Code by Charles Petzold

How would someone get into designing/simulating CPUs and computers other than Minecraft? Is there any software for learning and implementing "simple" logic circuits, memory, etc?

yarolig 4y ago

Ben Eater have nice videos on youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater/videos There is a good https://nandgame.com/ https://nandgame.com/ You may want to use some simulating software like a verilog interpreters or logic simulators. I do not know a good one, I'm not a specialist it that stuff. And... If you have a couple of months to waste... You can try Factorio.

bismuthcrystal 4y ago

Sorry for being this rough but, what a naive question this is. Of course there is.

unethical_ban 4y ago
It's expected that there are tools, clearly, since people seem to know how to do this kind of thing. Good tools that an interested beginner can use as a lab are another thing. If you skip back to the first question, then. It isn't naive. You chose to be short when you could have said nothing.
Twisol 4y ago
In natural language, asking "is there" is implicitly asking for more than just a truth value. It's expected that the response will include an example; a witness to the answer "yes". The indirection is considered polite and non-aggressive by many people. In particular, a direct question like "What software exists for this?" is sometimes met with a "Have you tried Google?", when the intent is also to get recommendations and not a pile of search results to evaluate as a newcomer. In this case, they got a rude answer anyway. I hardly think that's their fault though.

LelouBil 4y ago

Look at this game : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ Basically you go from building logic circuits to building your own CPU and writing assembly for it. I only added it to my wishlist, didn't try it yet.

unethical_ban 4y ago
It doesn't explain things too well, but it gives answers and is iterative so I'll keep at it.

Bakary 4y ago

https://www.nand2tetris.org/ https://www.nand2tetris.org/ I would also start with Code by Charles Petzold