Shawn Morel wrote on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:43:19 -0800 > Somewhat of a tangent - since Alan mentioned the Alto architecture. > Chuck Thacker is working on a few interesting HW prototyping > platforms at MS research. > The FPGA prototype system: > http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/bee3.aspx > More interestingly, though, is beehive: > http://projects.csail.mit.edu/beehive/Beehive-2010-01-MIT.pdf
I had mentioned this, but thanks for providing these links. > On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > [...] Chuck Thacker's series of TinyComputer > processors also have an extremely high ceiling. One detail I mentioned > to the professors is that if they take VHDL or Verilog as their starting > point (as Chuck does and they are currently doing) then they will be > left with a huge black box. The "start with just NAND" solution that > "Elements" and Etienne took will result in a much deeper understanding. > They don't have to be mutually exclusive - it is probably good to have > the students design the same processor both ways. [...] There are interesting differences between the various versions of Tiny Computer. I'll try to compile a list with more links and some comments about these differences from an educational viewpoint next week. -- Jecel _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
