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Tanuki has built a fully functioning computer processor in a home lab by stacking custom circuit boards, and is running logic and mathematics tests on its ALU, achieving complexity similar to early-1980s 16-bit home computers.
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Building a fully functioning computer processor in your home lab…
Tanuki stacked custom circuit boards into a home-made CPU. Here he’s running 5,400 logic and mathematics tests on the ALU “brain” (Arithmetic Logic Unit)
This is similar complexity to a early-1980s 16-bit home computer like the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A.
Tanuki Bayashin (@Tanuki_Bayashin): The ALU pass/fail test was successfully completed across all operations, when combined with other circuit boards as well (Each folder also contains a NOTICE file regarding the CC SA BY4.0 statement). #NLP_16A #DIY_CPU
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