Tasty » Adam Sampson's cpu bookmarks

Dieter's Homepage. edit / delete

Homebrew CPUs. Made from transistors. Extremely impressive.

to cpu electronics homebrew ... on 08 April

The J1 Forth CPU — excamera edit / delete

Forth CPU in an FPGA.

to architecture cpu forth fpga ... on 26 March

Stack Computers: the new wave -- an on-line book edit / delete

A late-80s overview of stack-based processors.

to architecture cpu forth stack transputer ... on 23 March

The problem with prefetch [LWN.net] edit / delete

The benefits of just trusting the CPU.

to caching ce0813 cpu performance ... on 18 June 2011

GreenArrays, Inc. edit / delete

Chuck Moore's latest Forth chip, with multiple cores and a channel-ish communication mechanism. Might be fun to play with.

to concurrency cpu embedded forth microcontroller multicore parallel ... on 29 October 2010

Zet processor - Zet edit / delete

8086 in an FPGA; runs FreeDOS.

to cpu fpga pc ... on 22 September 2010

www.Visual6502.org edit / delete

The 6502 emulated, at the transistor level, in Javascript. Words fail me.

to 6502 chip cpu design electronics retrocomputing ... on 19 September 2010

Gallery of Processor Cache Effects edit / delete

Some nice simple examples of cache weirdness.

to cache cpu optimisation performance teaching ... on 31 August 2010

The Red Hill Guide to Computer Hardware edit / delete

A well-written historical perspective on PC hardware -- notable CPUs, hard disks and motherboards -- from a small Australian PC shop. Worth reading.

to cpu hard-disk motherboard pc retrocomputing ... on 06 September 2009

AnandTech Bench (beta) edit / delete

Handy comparison between processors on a load of different (sadly somewhat desktop-centric) benchmarks.

to benchmarks cpu performance ... on 16 June 2009