my cpu can do all of this:

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > my cpu can do all of this:

Space-Pope: Aug 13, 2003; by zen death robot

i helped make a floating point processor this past semester, as part of a group

kind of proud of it, imho

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Space-Pope: Aug 13, 2003; by zen death robot

not much more to say. it was done over a couple of FPGA boards. did 32-bit addition/subtraction and multiplication, with the multiplier on the second board

input/output was with a PC via a serial terminal. the boards themselves communicated with each other, and was supposed to be RS-232, even if it really was just 4 wires connecting the boards

# ¿ Jan 6, 2016 05:33

Space-Pope: Aug 13, 2003; by zen death robot

Stereotype posted:

People used to do this with transistor circuits piled up to build logic gates. FPGAs are magic and I love them. Xilinx?

yeah, xilinx. man, it gets awfully tempting sometimes to get back to just using collections of gates

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