Random-words-writer's Journal: The project starts...

Firstly, my mouse freaks me out: it has problems with the OY axis... I think it should be cleaned a bit.

But what's the reason for that I started to maker these and reinvent the wheel ? Because my informatics teacher gave me a bad mark a year ago, but mainly beucase I like to make stuff working, and the today's PC architecture seems old.

And the status of the project:

DONE:
  * found how an "adder" an a "substracter" are made using logic gates (for unsigned integers)
  * downloaded the specs of the USB and FPGA
  * amazed my friends with this project

ToDo (short term):
  * learn VHDL
  * figure out how to interact with the memory (& the registers)
  * find an old casette player to setup as R/W memory (remember Sinclair?)
  * order from the internet the FPGA

ToDo (long term):
  * make a new architecture for the processor
  * implement USB (with a stack and controller)
  * implement VGA (and a small video card)
  * implement Ethernet (IPv6 tunelled, I think, and a small network card)
  * implement audio (and a small audio card)
  * make it a 500MHz octal-core system-on-a-chip
  * build an OS for it
  * build programs for the OS
  * ??????
  * PROFIT !

Ok, maybe I'm just dreaming... but it seems so real ;)