Tuesday, October 4, 2011


Building a one-instruction computer

posted Jul 27th 2011 5:01am by 
filed under: Software Development 
[Hasith] sent in this project where he goes through the process of designing a one instruction CPU in Verilog. It may not win a contest for the coolest build on Hack A  Day, but we really do appreciate the “applied nerd”  aspect of this build.
With only one instruction, an OISC is a lot simpler than the mess we have to deal with today. There are a few instructions that by themselves are Turing-complete (likeSubtract and branch if negative, and Move). Designing an OISC with one of these instructions means it can also emulate a Turing machine.

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