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		cushychicken on Aug 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A2Z: A computer designed and built from scratch. C... Best part of the FPGA class I took in college was writing a processor from scratch. ALU, program counter, control logic, all in VHDL. Wish I'd taken the followon course about writing peripherals.

jwineinger on Aug 24, 2018 [–]

Same. We had/got to implement a keyboard controller and VGA output as well and the grading was based on our system running prof's C programs, taking input, and producing correct output. Lots of late nights, but great fun when it worked.

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