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by L0uis.m
Sat Nov 09, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Introduce yourself
Replies: 716
Views: 418341

⚡ In(tro)ductivity ⚡

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⚡ In(tro)ductivity ⚡

Three Encounters of Electrifying Kind, or, Please Allow me ... Vacuum cleaners got newly wound electric motors ... recal). I asked the simple soul if I could use the ... basic-, assembler- and machine-code language on his Atom ...
by Sheep64
Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:55 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Project B-Frame: Dividing Pulses By 2^24
Replies: 1
Views: 882

Project B-Frame: Dividing Pulses By 2^24

Fans of 1980s Japanese animation will immediately understand the project naming convention .

I am making a computer ... be a significant step for newbies. For me, this is only a ... A practice mentioned in The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder provides the next best option. Specifically, develop two ...
by GARTHWILSON
Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:40 am
Forum: Emulation and Simulation
Topic: Multi-Core 64 Bit SIMD On AVR
Replies: 10
Views: 6435

Re: Multi-Core 64 Bit SIMD On AVR

Welcome! And I'm not sure if you're saying you're still 14 ... by Edson de Castro as part of the Data General Eclipse 32 ... For more detail, see The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. Perhaps William D. Mensch, Jr.'s 16 bit extension would be less hated and the fabled 32 bit Terbium extension would be ...
by Sheep64
Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:53 am
Forum: Emulation and Simulation
Topic: Multi-Core 64 Bit SIMD On AVR
Replies: 10
Views: 6435

Multi-Core 64 Bit SIMD On AVR

I'm working on a 64 bit SIMD extension to 6502. Initially, I ... However, various iterations of the design had poor instruction density, poor execution speed, a 350KB virtual machine or ... For more detail, see The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. Perhaps William D. Mensch, Jr.'s 16 bit extension would ...
by BigEd
Wed May 06, 2020 3:51 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: mode bits - an unusual approach seen elsewhere
Replies: 0
Views: 2576

mode bits - an unusual approach seen elsewhere

Nearby , we were discussing mode bits, in the context of enhanced or extended 6502 architectures:


...the E Flag, or ... that appears in The Soul Of A New Machine. Ed de Castro (a high-level manager/exec at Data General at the time) said something more or less as follows. " The trouble with Mode ...
by Proxy
Sun May 03, 2020 10:57 am
Forum: Emulation and Simulation
Topic: Extended 6502 Project (Logisim)
Replies: 126
Views: 31285

Re: Extended 6502 Project (Logisim)


You could start with the topic, " Instructions that I missed ."


Better yet - though I say it myself - see
Index of ... for the major post, as a new thread, and for sharing your ... that appears in The Soul Of A New Machine. Ed de Castro (a high-level manager/exec at Data General at the time ...
by Dr Jefyll
Sun May 03, 2020 3:10 am
Forum: Emulation and Simulation
Topic: Extended 6502 Project (Logisim)
Replies: 126
Views: 31285

Re: Extended 6502 Project (Logisim)

i assume RDY gets acknowledged on the rising edge of a Memory Access, that is atleast how i wired it up in my CPU... Toward ... that appears in The Soul Of A New Machine. Ed de Castro (a high-level manager/exec at Data General at the time) said something more or less as follows. " The trouble with Mode ...
by BigEd
Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:29 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: High-end VLIW 14th-gen x86 CPU.
Replies: 33
Views: 12064

Re: High-end VLIW 14th-gen x86 CPU.

Thanks for the link - it's a trailer for a documentary:
Rise of the Centaur 2015. ... This was former IBM Fellow and Dell ... be quite interesting: from Soul of a New Machine onwards, there are many good stories about efforts to make a new processor.

Just supposing a person were going to be successful in ...
by Dr Jefyll
Mon Jun 30, 2014 2:38 pm
Forum: Programmable Logic
Topic: M65C02A Core
Replies: 136
Views: 124200

Re: M65C02A Core

Lots to cover here, Michael!

I suppose it'd be nice in some ... topic makes the case that often it's best to have I/O in ... In Tracy Kidder's book, The Soul Of A New Machine (which I highly recommend) there's a humorous and disparaging remark about mode bits. Ed deCastro was firmly opposed, noting that, "you ...
by TMorita
Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:47 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: opcode cycle's
Replies: 8
Views: 5906

Garth, I was under the impression that the inside operations of the 65C02 was a giant databable ROM which would tell the ... mentioned in the book "soul of the new machine". It would be more of a giant state machine. thatr ties in with being able to go most any speed all the way down to DC for operations ...
by kc5tja
Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:36 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: opcode cycle's
Replies: 8
Views: 5906

Garth, I was under the impression that the inside operations of the 65C02 was a giant databable ROM which would tell the ... mentioned in the book "soul of the new machine". It would be more of a giant state machine. thatr ties in with being able to go most any speed all the way down to DC for operations ...
by Nightmaretony
Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:52 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: opcode cycle's
Replies: 8
Views: 5906

Garth, I was under the impression that the inside operations of the 65C02 was a giant databable ROM which would tell the ... mentioned in the book "soul of the new machine". It would be more of a giant state machine. thatr ties in with being able to go most any speed all the way down to DC for operations ...