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> While there are a number of great CARDIAC simulators out there (see Building a CPU simulator in Python for instance) and even an FPGA implementation (Al Willi
by musicale 1y ago
> While there are a number of great CARDIAC simulators out there (see Building a CPU simulator in Python for instance) and even an FPGA implementation (Al Williams - Paper to FPGA) there is nothing like holding and operating a physical device.
"Paper to FPGA" sounds like a cool idea, though the point of CARDIAC seems to be that you perform the operations yourself (by carefully following its flowchart/control specification and manipulating the cardboard device.)
- andrehacker 1y agoFYI, the link to the Al Williams article on DrDobb's website from the Instructables page seems dead but.. Wayback machine to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20180306072013/https://www.drdobbs.com/embedded-systems/cpu-design-on-paper/240153480 https://web.archive.org/web/20180306072013/https://www.drdob... That article has a link to an Excel implementation which allows you to "perform the operations" yourself without having to cut and assemble the computer.
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- earleybird 1y agoIt give me the concrete basis for "being the computer" that I put to use a year or two later programming assembler on a PDP-8I :-)