14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
8:01 p.m.
Don Y wrote:
I think once the 2901 "fell from grace" (?),
this became a thing
of the past. I've designed two processors "from scratch" (TTL
with bipolar ROMs for the microcode store) and found it quite
an interesting exercise. Not just the "logic design" but
actually thinking about what the instruction set should be
for that particular application domain, etc.
Aprpops of nothing more than AMD, whatever happened to the AMD 29K RISC
processors? They were a very hot item at one point.
Cheers,
Chuck