A new year, a new (big) project: I decided to create a whole computer from transistors. Yes, individual transistors. There are of course many many projects like this on the web, but none of them are mine, so, challenge accepted. Plus, most of those machines are rather minimalistic designs, mostly owing to their tiny memories. I intend to build a much more capable machine:
- 2MHz operating frequency
- 32kByte of magnetic core memory
- 16-bit data, address and instruction length
- RISC-like instruction set but multi-cycle implementation
- Interrupt capability and peripherals
This time around I decided to document the project as I go, not as a postmortem. If this sounds interesting, check the details out here:
