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 Donn Stewart's homebrew CPUs (CPUville) 
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A couple of interesting projects from Donn Stewart:

The original CPUville homebuilt processor of 2004

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and ten years later, another one:
My Home-Built 8-bit TTL Computer Processor (CPU)

Video demo:
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The original processor had a single instruction format (4-bit opcode, 12-bit operand), and a 16-bit memory width so I could fetch instructions in one step from a 16-bit wide memory. It had only a 12-bit memory space (4K words). The ALU was 12-bits wide, but because of that I was unable to load instructions over a serial interface as two 8-bit words -- the processor could not assemble a 16-bit instruction from two 8-bit input bytes! I cobbled together a port that that would shift the first of two input bytes into the high-order byte of a 16-bit word, but it was a kludge. The processor worked, but it was far from elegant. It had a very small memory space, and an ALU that did not do subtract-with-borrow correctly.


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