Anyone can feel like Federico Faggin and on a shoestring budget design your own CPU and an embedded system to test it, on your own desk. The first integrated CPU ever sold, the venerable Intel 4040 ...

Although the AI didn't select the components or board layout, its assistance with routing potentially saved engineers weeks ...

Many successful large-scale projects don’t start out large: they start with a small working core and grow out from there. Building a completely open-source personal computer is not a weekend project.

We’ve seen our share of blinking light projects around here; most are fairly straightforward small projects, but this entry to the 2025 One Hertz Challenge is the polar opposite of that approach.

The 1541 Disk Drive Computer project boots a Commodore 1541 like a KIM-1, letting you run Tiny BASIC and machine code over ...

Quarter long team project that entails designing a processor for a complete Instruction Set. Involves ISA design, design of components, datapath and control for a pipelined processor to implement the ...

If you're old enough then you'll remember the GHz race of the day between Intel and AMD, the race towards 1000MHz (1GHz) was a huge deal... and then we went to dual-core CPUs, and the Pentium brand ...