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by viskr
Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Building your own CPU from TTL chips
Replies: 42
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This is a bit belated post to this message, but I was wondering if you made any progress. My history goes back to building CPUs out of ECL and later a group of 3 custom CMOS chips laid out by hand a transistor at a time. While you could still use TTL to do this some of the chips may be hard to find....
by viskr
Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: very interesting arm/usb dev board
Replies: 8
Views: 5129

very interesting arm/usb dev board

The ARMexpress and ARMmite products come with a simple BASIC compiler, with hardware support for SPI, I2C, PWM, FREQOUT, async SER, sync SHIFT routines. Its targeted at getting simple control projects done quickly. 32bit integers and arrays and strings are the standard types. A pre-configured full A...
by viskr
Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: very interesting arm/usb dev board
Replies: 8
Views: 5129

ARMmite

The ARMmite product is for real, and the bundled BASIC compiler makes it easy to use. You can spend the time programming rather than downloading instructions from forums. The compiler runs on the PC for the ARMmite, so it is currently limited to Windows platforms. In addition there is a pre-configur...