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A project log for One-instruction TTL Computer

A breadboard-able computer which uses only a single instruction - MOVE

justin-davisJustin Davis 04/22/2017 at 02:131 Comment

Got my ALU and register modeled in VHDL. I admit I found a model for the 74181 online. But I wrote the '996 myself with a testbench. I was a little rusty on my VHDL, but it comes back fast. Vivado is a little hairy too. Took me a while to figure out that I can't start my module names with a number. But it's off and running now. Next I'll hook them up together and maybe even put a databus in there. A little address decoding and it starts to look like a system!

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 04/22/2017 at 07:27 point

"I admit I found a model for the 74181 online."

Actually it's good because it saves you a lot of hair-pulling with the weird architecture of this chip :-)

However you MUST verify that the code matches reality because errors are so easy to make...

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