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That may be if we wanted to create computers similar to what we use today, but wiring diagrams of an extremely basic CPU was part of everyone's CS undergrad at
by craftkiller 1y ago
That may be if we wanted to create computers similar to what we use today, but wiring diagrams of an extremely basic CPU was part of everyone's CS undergrad at my school (and I assume most other schools too?) so if we just needed to make a turing machine with discrete components I'm sure a couple of us could dig up those memories and figure it out again in a pinch.
- jjmarr 1y ago> wiring diagrams of an extremely basic CPU was part of everyone's CS undergrad at my school (and I assume most other schools too?) I went to Toronto Metropolitan University (ranked 800-1000 globally) and actually designing that basic CPU was too hard for most students, so they just gave us VHDL code to copy & paste into Quartus II. Their VHDL code had bugs in it which I discovered after doing the project myself from scratch and comparing my answer with the "correct" one. This has been the policy for many years now. Shockingly our co-op placement rates have dropped from 70% to 30%.
- craftkiller 1y agoHmm well damn, I did go to school a little over a decade ago, so things could have slipped since then. My school seems to be in the low 600s on CWUR[0] which sounds like the same ballpark as Toronto Metropolitan University on those rankings. [0] https://cwur.org/2024/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute.php https://cwur.org/2024/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute.php