I Designed My Own 16-bit CPU

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In this video, I decided to design my own CPU, an emulator for it, its own assembly language, and a compiled language.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Breaking it down
1:26 Start designing
1:46 Instruction set
6:03 Memory layout
7:03 Video circuitry
8:15 Writing programs
9:03 A compiled language
11:01 The emulator
11:55 Compiled programs
12:15 Making pong
15:10 Outro
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  • @AstroSamDev
    @AstroSamDev Жыл бұрын

    It sure has been a while since my last video, and there are so many new faces here! If you want to interact more with the community, I have a discord server where we talk about cool and random programming things, and you can see sneak peeks of future videos! discord.gg/9p82dTEdkN I will also start streaming programming soon on my second channel here: kzread.info/dron/QSOig4wEV_pAFPRg0qtSmQ.html

  • @offsetmonkey5382

    @offsetmonkey5382

    Жыл бұрын

    Hmmm 7 minutes beforr video was uploaded

  • @Gamer-ct6hb

    @Gamer-ct6hb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@offsetmonkey5382 sus

  • @kingofthegoats7032

    @kingofthegoats7032

    Жыл бұрын

    Discord server is very good everyone should instantly join

  • @stickworldanimated9545

    @stickworldanimated9545

    Жыл бұрын

    Very Nice

  • @ItsCOMMANDer_

    @ItsCOMMANDer_

    Жыл бұрын

    Why don't you team up with @Sam Zeloof to meke a homemade computer, he made an 1000 transistor silicon based chip.

  • @davidm7333
    @davidm7333 Жыл бұрын

    As a programmer there's nothing that makes you feel quite like a fraud than seeing someone create their own CPU, build an emulator for it, create a programming language and compiler then write a game in it 😅 Well done and keep up the good work!

  • @AstroSamDev

    @AstroSamDev

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Also, think the biggest problem with this project is time. I believe anyone can do it, easily, given there are so many resources online. But finding time to do the research, and make the design can be difficult. I didn't know anything about computer hardware, but I did research (and watched a lot of Ben Eater), and then a month later I made this cpu. It is relatively basic, but it is a start.

  • @seannibecker5500

    @seannibecker5500

    8 ай бұрын

    Wow, are you just super smart or something @@AstroSamDev

  • @Thiquid

    @Thiquid

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@AstroSamDev Even still, it takes incredible dedication to complete. Even if there's enjoyment to it, what you've done is beyond impressive!

  • @monad_tcp

    @monad_tcp

    6 ай бұрын

    Do you use programming language that were not made for Browsers ? (aka, not JS) If you answer yes to that, you're not a fraud.

  • @okie9025

    @okie9025

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@monad_tcpyou wouldn't be able to write this comment without JS

  • @le9038
    @le9038 Жыл бұрын

    >>creates own programming language >> learn and creates a CPU with it's own assembly and microcodes this man is becoming god.

  • @imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881

    @imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881

    Жыл бұрын

    Broo this is not 4chan

  • @imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881

    @imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881

    Жыл бұрын

    @@le9038 just assumed it was

  • @maxelartist4264

    @maxelartist4264

    Жыл бұрын

    and after create own digital world where is made computer those emulate metaverse

  • @catx6262

    @catx6262

    Жыл бұрын

    @@le9038 ew... reddit

  • @KatzRool

    @KatzRool

    Жыл бұрын

    @@le9038 I think you'll find it's quite literally the opposite lmaoo

  • @ByWire-yk8eh
    @ByWire-yk8eh Жыл бұрын

    I designed a 16-bit CPU (microprocessor) in 1977 that was used in a mainframe as the I/O processor. It had a unique instruction set (RISC). Lots of fun, and a lot of work.

  • @helloworld145

    @helloworld145

    Жыл бұрын

    16 bit in 1977? That's insane

  • @OpenGL4ever

    @OpenGL4ever

    Жыл бұрын

    @@helloworld145 Not for a mainframe. But the price tag sure was insane.

  • @CaptianTitan

    @CaptianTitan

    10 ай бұрын

    Cool

  • @herrbonk3635

    @herrbonk3635

    10 ай бұрын

    @@helloworld145 There were 64-bit computers in the early 1960s.

  • @KuroParasite

    @KuroParasite

    9 ай бұрын

    @@herrbonk3635 64 bit computers must be crazy expensive in that year lol.

  • @gegaomega5038
    @gegaomega5038 Жыл бұрын

    i am too stupid to understand it

  • @Schnickenpick

    @Schnickenpick

    Ай бұрын

    Finally something I can relate to

  • @0x_nietoh

    @0x_nietoh

    Ай бұрын

    At least you’re not in denial. Less competition for us folks!

  • @filipec0rreia

    @filipec0rreia

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@0x_nietoh "folks"

  • @kiwi7556

    @kiwi7556

    Ай бұрын

    Womp womp

  • @aleclandman8194

    @aleclandman8194

    29 күн бұрын

    Noooo. You just haven't gone deep enough to understand. Not understanding YET is totally different from being stupid. :)

  • @maindepth8830
    @maindepth8830 Жыл бұрын

    The fact he did all this in under 4 months is impressive

  • @dimi5862

    @dimi5862

    Жыл бұрын

    I can do it in one

  • @maindepth8830

    @maindepth8830

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dimi5862 go on show me, everything from scratch, from nothing. As of this comment the date is Saturday 23rd july 2022. You can work during live streams to make sure you didnt cheat

  • @AkariInsko

    @AkariInsko

    Жыл бұрын

    i can do it in one (millenium).

  • @brysonw7270

    @brysonw7270

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maindepth8830 lol but true

  • @brysonw7270

    @brysonw7270

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dimi5862 prove it

  • @Azeal
    @Azeal Жыл бұрын

    You have a level of knowledge about low-level computing that I wish I had in, well... anything. Incredible work, continue to hone your talents and I'm looking forward to that build when the day arrives!

  • @alperkaya8919

    @alperkaya8919

    Жыл бұрын

    Just read textbooks

  • @elakstein

    @elakstein

    Жыл бұрын

    These things are taught in engineering.

  • @greatbullet7372

    @greatbullet7372

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elakstein no they dont!

  • @elakstein

    @elakstein

    Жыл бұрын

    @@greatbullet7372 ok. I will correct myself. I learnt these things in college. Obviously not as deep as he showed in this video.

  • @vishnuskandata2355

    @vishnuskandata2355

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elakstein true... but we somehow dont understand or learn that but a person like this can teach it in just hours...

  • @timedmondson1307
    @timedmondson1307 Жыл бұрын

    I have been involved in computer engineering since the 90's and to see how easy the knowledge is accessible now is mind blowing. I had to spend years on what he has done in a few months. This is truly the best time to be alive

  • @handlehaggler

    @handlehaggler

    4 ай бұрын

    I can't imagine what it must be like for the people who were there from around the beginning of all this craze to where we are now. At some point I imagine you knew everything there was to know about but as time moved on new products, programs and such became available and after a while it just becomes too much to all learn and you just watch in awe at how dense and complex its become

  • @MarkieMark-vy7hg

    @MarkieMark-vy7hg

    2 ай бұрын

    @@handlehagglerthe lady who help invent voip is still alive…she was one of the hallmark individuals in the creation of the World Wide Web. It’s so wild to me.

  • @Roter_Wolf
    @Roter_Wolf Жыл бұрын

    When I was 16 i just started learning my first programming language. Meanwhile this guy is casually creating his own languages and also designing a computer from scratch while he's at it. You're going places, man

  • @theburntcrumpet8371
    @theburntcrumpet8371 Жыл бұрын

    I've been programming for 8 years. I have recently fallen out of love with it. You have reminded me why I loved it in the first place - the ingenuity of simple yet expansible design, the thrill of problem solving and the marriage of hardware and software. Thank you.

  • @memeology4138

    @memeology4138

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello can u help me? Im new to coding can u link me to any good sources for learning python

  • @elakstein

    @elakstein

    Жыл бұрын

    @@memeology4138 learn c first. Python abstract just too much. First language should be c if you want to understand things. I would recommend "Let us c" for leaning c. We used this to learn c in college, then I learnt Java fir understanding object oriented language, then python.

  • @abcdefghjijklfgu

    @abcdefghjijklfgu

    Жыл бұрын

    @@memeology4138 im new too but im doing c and js

  • @memeology4138

    @memeology4138

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elakstein thx for ur help

  • @tacorito1809

    @tacorito1809

    Жыл бұрын

    @@abcdefghjijklfgu why c and js? learn one language first, master it. plus, js is usually nothing without html/css, unless you're learning react and stuff.

  • @Auxilor
    @Auxilor Жыл бұрын

    Amazing. Deserves far more views! Would be great to see you make this CPU for real like the jdh-8

  • @AstroSamDev

    @AstroSamDev

    Жыл бұрын

    I was planning on doing just that, it might just take some time though. I also want to do a design that doesn't use breadboards, and instead have a few custom PCBs printed.

  • @AstroSamDev

    @AstroSamDev

    Жыл бұрын

    @@avinadadmendez4019 Cool, I have never heard of that program, I'll look into it more. Thanks!

  • @pixobit5882

    @pixobit5882

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AstroSamDev I would buy it if it's not too expensive! I really like this project and i think it would be really fun to develop own programms that run on real hardware!

  • @cemalettincembelentepe8943

    @cemalettincembelentepe8943

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AstroSamDev @AstroSam You can also put your design on an FPGA, I don't think I have ever seen one done on youtube before for a homebrew cpu. For those who don't know; FPGAs are circuits that you can load any digital circuit on it. For example you can put your circuit on an FPGA and map the input output pins of the top module and the circuit is now the circuit you created.

  • @xanderkyron

    @xanderkyron

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cemalettincembelentepe8943 FPGAs have been used for soft CPUs for a very long time now (well over a decade), it would be more interesting to see a hard CPU manufacturing approach and it would be unique for these homebrew CPUs unlike using an FPGA. Granted he'd be stuck getting them as samples on a really old process node (>=28nm), but that's more than good enough for this purpose

  • @nichonaugle5659
    @nichonaugle5659 Жыл бұрын

    incredible!! this is the most complex thing I've ever picked up on so quickly, You literally made this sound so straightforward I love it. Thank you so much!!!

  • @asyncawait5335
    @asyncawait5335 Жыл бұрын

    Congrats on everything man I'm glad to see the progress you are making !

  • @nathanaeltrimm2720
    @nathanaeltrimm2720 Жыл бұрын

    Man, the sequel to templeOS is looking wild, I’m just waiting for the twist the writers have planned.

  • @BigOrse

    @BigOrse

    Жыл бұрын

    It's just TempleOS minus the schizophrenia

  • @HBP27

    @HBP27

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BigOrse so its just boring then

  • @BigOrse

    @BigOrse

    Жыл бұрын

    @@test-zg4hv What so I should praise the man for being completely insane?

  • @tsclly2377

    @tsclly2377

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BigOrse I'll wait on that diagnosis..

  • @BigOrse

    @BigOrse

    Жыл бұрын

    Not coming here to defend myself, I don't care if what I said was stupid. To anyone saying I'm disrespectful though I suggest you maybe actually look into Terry Davis as a person, because he was a lot more disrespectful than I am. Anyway RIP Terry. I may not agree with his ideology but can't deny the man was a pretty legendary programmer.

  • @D.a.n_D
    @D.a.n_D Жыл бұрын

    So i just barely passed my computer architecture course. We did mostly 32 bit MIPS processor and we also had to design one ourselves, but on 16 bits, and we didn't have to add multiplication or division. We only implemented about 15 instructions and i can tell you what this man did right hear, is no easy work. You deserve way more subscribers for the amount of work you put in man. Great work!

  • @UNIT398
    @UNIT398 Жыл бұрын

    Simply amazing. The fact that you did all this for fun (mostly) speaks to your intelligence and understanding of how technology works. Yes, my brain didn't understand most of it, but seeing you construct each layer, part, and program was fascinating! I hope to see that creation of the CPU and other parts!

  • @JesusisJesus

    @JesusisJesus

    9 ай бұрын

    I understood about 0000000000000000% of it. Wondering WHY he did it, When there’s stuff already available and cheap these days, I guess it boils down to “Because I can”

  • @snowflakezzonPC
    @snowflakezzonPC Жыл бұрын

    I really feel like it's understated how incredible this video really is. Amazing work, man!

  • @lewisd56
    @lewisd56 Жыл бұрын

    I did something similar to this a good few years ago, I designed an 8-bit CPU in logicSim, wrote an emulator in C#, designed an assembly language and assembler. Unfortunately, I made a lot of mistakes in designing the architecture, things like fixed instruction lengths and no way to store perform operations on values larger than 8 bits (technically it was possible, but with 256 bytes of memory and 8 of them reserved for registers it wasnt very useful anyway). Having recently written a Z80 simulator, and learning a lot about CPU architecture in the process helped me identify all of the issues in my initial design. with that said, it wasnt bad for an A-level project that confused the hell out of everyone who tried to mark it.

  • @absalomdraconis

    @absalomdraconis

    Жыл бұрын

    256 addresses and some external logic should be enough to implement a microcode architecture.

  • @TechTino

    @TechTino

    Жыл бұрын

    A-level??? Dude that's unreal. I built an sql table viewer in VB...

  • @shinyhappyrem8728

    @shinyhappyrem8728

    Жыл бұрын

    Fixed instruction length isn't that bad, it's what RISC uses.

  • @lewisd56

    @lewisd56

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shinyhappyrem8728 considering the memory limitations, every instruction being 3 bytes long is an issue (command operand1 operand2), some instructions didn't need operands, such as halt, but would still need 3 bytes in RAM.

  • @lewisd56

    @lewisd56

    Жыл бұрын

    @Ramtin Javanmardi If you understand how the architecture works, writing an emulator isnt really too hard, you could even write a simulator if you wanted, but you need to get instruction timings and all sorts of hardware stuff simulated too, which can be a hassle. Basically, you need really 2 core things for an emulator, an ISA, which you should have if you designed the microArch, and some way to interpret the ISA, really this will probably be high level logic in your chosen programming language. I simply used a case switch on binary opcodes that called methods with the operands (remember, because this is an emulator, memory read and write timings dont matter), but a better approach (and the one I used on my Z80 simulator) would be to use instruction classes and loop through an array of these classes (well, cast to interfaces) testing if the opcode can execute a given function in the class. How you handle IO is up to you, I didn't, but memory mapped IO is pretty easy to implement and can be done by simply accessing the RAM object of your emulator. My Z80 simulator is open source, and was written for a university project, so it might help, it can be found here: github.com/Lewinator56/z80Sim (you will need .net core 3.1) Writing an assembler is kind of different, in reality at the easiest level you are simply going to have a defined assembly language and just convert it into opcodes, which is pretty easy to do. If you want to include functions and variables (by name) in the ASM then you need to process symbols too. I simply stuck with a conversion from ASM to binary.

  • @polic72andDrD3ath
    @polic72andDrD3ath Жыл бұрын

    It's been a while since I've taken a comp org class; this was the perfect bridge of software and hardware that reminded me why I loved it so much!

  • @amardevsharma1223
    @amardevsharma1223 Жыл бұрын

    Yo this helped so much and I always appreciate the content and when i found the channel and got the energy from you from the previous video, you've been nothing but real and can vouch for the amazing content and how down to earth you are with everything! All the most love, respect, and appreciation

  • @daviddafitt
    @daviddafitt Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing. I've always wanted to try things like this but I'm just a busy CS student for now. I'll come back to this if I do get time to start.

  • @comandercrypto1318
    @comandercrypto1318 Жыл бұрын

    You could learn verilog or vhdl to create the cpu on an fpga, then use off the shelf ic's for ram and rom. Fpga's, if you dont know, are programmable hardware that rewire themselves based on coding. Intel , AMD, and other companies use multi million dollar chips for prototyping chips before sending them off to print. Consumer models range from $50 to $300, and have been used for software implementations for retro systems and modern 32 and 64 bit risc v based cpus.

  • @proxy1035

    @proxy1035

    Жыл бұрын

    alternatively you can also be lazy like me and simply build your circuits in a logic simulator like "Digital" (it's like Logisim but faster and with extra features) and then just export them as Verilog/VDHL. it works surprisingly well actually.

  • @hedgehuug1603

    @hedgehuug1603

    Жыл бұрын

    yes this

  • @ArneChristianRosenfeldt

    @ArneChristianRosenfeldt

    Жыл бұрын

    And at this point I would have thought that chips from Intel and AMD are pure evolution .. no revolutionary steps. Steps are not agile. Maybe they include experimental modules in every chip, test them, and if it works, you get the next iteration ( more expensive ). An FPGA and a chip from Intel have nothing in common. Intel chips are optimized down to the photolithography layout and full analog simulation (spice) of the transistors. FPGA does not give you this. The days of the Pentium DIV bug, where a professor from a university uses an ad hoc script to get his algorithm from university software to some proprietary CAD at intel, are long gone.

  • @OpenGL4ever

    @OpenGL4ever

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ArneChristianRosenfeldt The advantage of using an FGPA instead of individual chips for this project is, that others could make use of it too by simply reprogramming their FPGA. There is already a real CPU design called Magic-1 from Bill Buzbee. The problem is, others have to recreate it, if they want have a copy of it. Search for Magic-1 on YT, there are some videos about this impressive project.

  • @darkcoeficient

    @darkcoeficient

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@ArneChristianRosenfeldtwouldn't FPGA be a bit more like a drawing board at that level?

  • @markify8019
    @markify8019 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos are extremely well edited and your explanations are in depth and easy to understand. Can’t wait to see you hit 100k soon!

  • @3v068
    @3v068 Жыл бұрын

    The first video of yours im watching and I love it! Ive always been interested in computers and specifically how they work, and ive also wanted to get into circuit building so this is RIGHT up my alley. Your editing is fucking amazing too! Keep it up dude!

  • @evandossett3897
    @evandossett3897Ай бұрын

    Love the video and the content! Only issue I had was getting caught off guard by the change in music or the selection, startled me a few times cause it would change out of no where while I wasn't fully focused on it and thought something was making noise in a different tab or process lol.

  • @martinooliveri7310
    @martinooliveri7310 Жыл бұрын

    amazing, and actually insipiring. im looking forward to make my own operative system in the future and these videos bring me so much joy. cheers!

  • @WTBuilder

    @WTBuilder

    Жыл бұрын

    is it linux based?

  • @4.0.4

    @4.0.4

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WTBuilder _"Interjection!!"_ - Stallman Ace Attorney

  • @plk173
    @plk173 Жыл бұрын

    when the video was suggested I was like ooo intersteing, then you introduced it and i was like oh no another meme project but instead you made an extremely difficult topic accessible and interesting, cant wait to see more from you

  • @dubtokermusic950
    @dubtokermusic950 Жыл бұрын

    Awesomeness!! Always wondered how this works, very well laid out explanation dood

  • @raychrash5139
    @raychrash5139 Жыл бұрын

    dude legit its my first year in computer science university and the fact that i understood everything you said in this video makes me happy, you inspired me to try messing around with cpu designing

  • @kingofthegoats7032
    @kingofthegoats7032 Жыл бұрын

    What's next? Own OS on this CPU programmed with z#? Lol Great vid btw worth the wait

  • @AstroSamDev

    @AstroSamDev

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably, that text editor is just begging to be transformed into an interactive command line.

  • @kingofthegoats7032

    @kingofthegoats7032

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AstroSamDev AstroOS coming :000

  • @haralabospap7091

    @haralabospap7091

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AstroSamDev rewrite the Linux kernel in Z# and make z#/Linux /s of course

  • @Maykeye

    @Maykeye

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol aside, that's actually not impossible: see Collapse OS for how to bootstrap from almost nothing to working OS.

  • @M3LP
    @M3LP Жыл бұрын

    This is both beautiful and confusing, it's truly art. I wish go truly understand everything here, but this flies way over my head.

  • @FloatSamplesGT710
    @FloatSamplesGT71016 күн бұрын

    You deserve way more subs dude, very underrated and hardworking/smart working and dedicated too

  • @thomasvogel4340
    @thomasvogel4340 Жыл бұрын

    I've always wanted to know how computers work at lower levels. Thanks a lot, this was very insightful, and was very entertaining to watch. You got a new subscriber now.

  • @lucarosania1358
    @lucarosania1358 Жыл бұрын

    This is probably the most impressive thing I've ever seen on KZread, very very good job! Thank you so much for sharing this 😊

  • @leeaffdraws8502
    @leeaffdraws8502 Жыл бұрын

    Woah, I remember last year, one of the subjects I had during the semester was about computer architecture. We saw how the alu works, the ram, the control unit, instruction and microinstruction sets and even periferal handling. Our tests were about designing some use cases for each component, which was a demanding process. Seeing you put that knowledge to work makes me remember how amazed I was while taking those classes. Nice video! and excellently explained too

  • @mathismartin3092

    @mathismartin3092

    Жыл бұрын

    I did that last year too! I don't know what software you used, but here we did it with diglog and it was a lot of fun ^^

  • @leeaffdraws8502

    @leeaffdraws8502

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mathismartin3092 Our exams were mainly done on paper, but we used logisim for practicing! Of course we stuck to no more than 4 or 5 bits for the instruction set, and mostly doing just read, write and math instructions, but it was really interesting to figure out how to do certain things :D

  • @jayanthpandit3437
    @jayanthpandit34374 ай бұрын

    watched this video once before college and didn't understand much. watched it again after my first semester as an ECE major and understood a lot more. thanks!

  • @zencibalina2926
    @zencibalina2926 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the motivation. I wasn't sure if I could do it, but I might try it eventually.

  • @ggre55
    @ggre55 Жыл бұрын

    Damn bro I can't believe how smart u actually are i never thought someone like u would exist really really awesome Damn

  • @nullmemaddress
    @nullmemaddress Жыл бұрын

    Let’s get this strait: - Man makes own cpu - Man then makes own language - Man then makes own compiler - Man then makes his own emulator WTF

  • @msmith2961

    @msmith2961

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget he also wrote a port of Pong to run on said computer...

  • @notsa_s

    @notsa_s

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro this is like jdh shit right here

  • @DumDoger

    @DumDoger

    Жыл бұрын

    *straight

  • @PiyushBhakat

    @PiyushBhakat

    Жыл бұрын

    And he's ONLY 16. When I was 16, I was barely writing hello world in C++.

  • @alexyo2440

    @alexyo2440

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@PiyushBhakatBits per age. This man will only grow stronger in time and consume more bits

  • @alexjohnson5677
    @alexjohnson567710 ай бұрын

    I had a similar project during my computer science degree. This was a good refresher on the different individual components of a CPU. Makes me want to fire up Logisim again! Great video.

  • @ArtemArist
    @ArtemArist10 ай бұрын

    What the hell, man, this is nuts.. Great work, i cannot imagine how tough it was to this point, damn..

  • @monemperor1559
    @monemperor1559 Жыл бұрын

    this is insane. Making a CPU, then your own compiler specifically to run programs on it and then an emulator for it. Cool stuff

  • @Azurdos
    @Azurdos Жыл бұрын

    My godness, your content is awesome ! I think that a video explaining your path to achieve such a detailed knowledge about low level computing would also be very interesting :)

  • @robmartin7873
    @robmartin7873 Жыл бұрын

    Great work! Thank you for documenting this for us

  • @estebanod
    @estebanod Жыл бұрын

    This guy is building his whole DIY computer and I struggle to write a three-line-long Python code to download pictures from a website ...

  • @eekee6034

    @eekee6034

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah. I've wanted to build my own computer for decades, but my brain just goes, "what are these facts NOPE!" lol but it's getting better slowly.

  • @GodofWar1515
    @GodofWar1515 Жыл бұрын

    Really awesome work! I've been really interested in this for a very long time. Really glad to see more people getting into this as well. Keep up the great work!

  • @Gghhhngbvg
    @Gghhhngbvg Жыл бұрын

    I just found your channel today and your crazy dude! im Just getting into computers. But Making a language AND creating a whole new CPU. Is amazing man! If your were to ask a professor how to do this, he would look at like you were insane! Keep up the great work man!!

  • @mixmaster5150
    @mixmaster5150 Жыл бұрын

    I love that you're using the gameboy sims musics for this video. I mean those are incredibly underrated games but made my childhood

  • @adama7752
    @adama7752 Жыл бұрын

    Man relives computer history. Punch cards, assembly, etc..

  • @Koljon
    @Koljon Жыл бұрын

    very cool cant wait to see you building it in irl ;)

  • @kakes_
    @kakes_ Жыл бұрын

    Literally finishing up my build of Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer as I write this. I'm already itching for 16 bits, among many other improvements. (Thinking I might slap a Pi Pico on there so I can control it from a web interface - could be interesting.) Looks like a fun project! I'll definitely be following your progress with this. I admire that you're designing it yourself from the ground up, something I kind of wish I'd done myself tbh, haha. (Also, love the Wintergatan!)

  • @pan2285
    @pan228510 ай бұрын

    Thanks brother, your content helps me a lot! Keep up the great work! This is exactly what yt is made for!!

  • @ad.i
    @ad.i Жыл бұрын

    THIS WAS EXPLAINED SO WELL WHAT THE HELL? SERIOUSLY KUDOS TO YOU MAN

  • @atomspalter2090
    @atomspalter2090 Жыл бұрын

    congrats for that achievement. You actually designed a own computer. Wow!

  • @ana303_
    @ana303_ Жыл бұрын

    I had microprocessor last semester, you did well explaining everything as simply as possible.

  • @morchedlafferty8614
    @morchedlafferty86146 ай бұрын

    Impressed!!! Great content! Well presented, I loved it!

  • @totallynotabot151
    @totallynotabot151 Жыл бұрын

    Now grab an FPGA devkit and turn it into real hardware! (In case you haven't done that before, designing circuitry with Verilog / VHDL is actually quite an interesting puzzle).

  • @AxelMontini

    @AxelMontini

    Жыл бұрын

    Agree. My university had us build a single cycle 8-bit MIPS processor on a Xilinx FPGA. A very simple processor, yet probably the best project we've done so far.

  • @Hylianmonkeys
    @Hylianmonkeys Жыл бұрын

    HELL YEAH. I unknowingly taught myself how to build computers using redstone in minecraft. At this point I've now built dozens of redstone machines including an entire gamesystem in minecraft. It has a 7x7 pixel screen, A 7bit CPU, more than 80 4bit regesters, and a rom size currently only 5.456KB or 496 bytes. However the rom can be expanded to indefinite sizes.

  • @Gailon1000
    @Gailon1000 Жыл бұрын

    KZread needs more content like this!!! Thank you for dedication and educating us

  • @jimenezharlenjoyf.8158
    @jimenezharlenjoyf.8158 Жыл бұрын

    You are literally the best, I've been looking for a tutorial for three days and yours works

  • @Bobbias
    @Bobbias Жыл бұрын

    For smoother movement of the paddles, you could have created 2 more characters (either added to the charset, or overwriting some unused characters) with half height paddle characters, so your paddle could move in half-tile increments.

  • @Maykeye

    @Maykeye

    Жыл бұрын

    if it supports color for text, 1 character is enough: you simply swap background and foreground color which turn ▀ turns into ▄ .

  • @morgan0

    @morgan0

    Жыл бұрын

    or a way to write arbitrary data into unused characters and then display that with the faster character rendering

  • @OpenGL4ever

    @OpenGL4ever

    Жыл бұрын

    This would make the drawing routine more complex and thus slower. Better design a bit blitter and let the bit blitter hardware do the rest.

  • @fillupdidier5514
    @fillupdidier5514 Жыл бұрын

    The quality of your videos is like a youtuber with a million views per video. I guess I found your channel the right time as I am getting more into computers but not even close to where you're at.

  • @tomasdougan1419
    @tomasdougan1419 Жыл бұрын

    holy shit I'm shocked how cool your channel is. Awesome video!

  • @ingenierocantor
    @ingenierocantor Жыл бұрын

    What the Awessome Project! And very good music.

  • @jeffparent2159
    @jeffparent2159 Жыл бұрын

    Very cool project. This was the stuff I loved doing at uni. Sadly FPGA are still crazy expensive, the CPUs we designed there were all in HDL languages and allowed you to run on hardware. Makes me wanna dig out that code again.

  • @hamburgerhamburgerv2
    @hamburgerhamburgerv2 Жыл бұрын

    2025: I designed the world’s most powerful computer

  • @Random-os5rd
    @Random-os5rd Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial, links and program worked fine for me. Thanks for sharing.

  • @MotownBatman
    @MotownBatman Жыл бұрын

    This is Crazy Hangover type Witchraft! Epic Project; Great Job!

  • @AshtonSnapp
    @AshtonSnapp Жыл бұрын

    Using a 16-bit address bus would get you 64 kibibytes. Although, since you’re storing a 16-bit word at each address rather than a byte, you have 64 kibiwords - or 128 kibibytes - of memory to work with. Le edit: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes. 1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes. One is a binary prefix, the other is a metric prefix.

  • @axmoylotl

    @axmoylotl

    Жыл бұрын

    how many habibibytes is that

  • @DeeezNuts

    @DeeezNuts

    Жыл бұрын

    @@axmoylotl 2 hamoodibytes

  • @anon_y_mousse

    @anon_y_mousse

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm never going to use that childish sounding garbage. 1024 bytes is a kilobyte and SI has no business even being included in the discussion, I don't even care that they're using the same letters for prefixing, it's still going to be powers of two. Hard drive manufacturers have caused and are continuing to cause harm to the industry by being such cheats and now we've got douche-nozzles who want to redefine all of our terms instead of taking the manufacturers to task. It's almost as bad as changing BC/AD to BCE/CE because they don't like the implications of how the names originated. Stop redefining terms.

  • @tissuepaper9962

    @tissuepaper9962

    Жыл бұрын

    Nobody cares about kibi, kilobyte is 1024 in my heart.

  • @Anon.G

    @Anon.G

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tissuepaper9962 same here

  • @joshuadelawarr1027
    @joshuadelawarr1027 Жыл бұрын

    AstroSam in 10 years: imade my own os that simulates our universe

  • @stephencarter2041
    @stephencarter2041 Жыл бұрын

    very interesting. love your explanation on everything.

  • @kurono1822
    @kurono1822 Жыл бұрын

    Absolute legend, the best part is that you shared this so we can see in full detail how this works.

  • @CYON4D
    @CYON4D Жыл бұрын

    Does your emulator skip the logic layer and just execute instructions on the list? You did an amazing job with your custom CPU. By the way I noticed the original Sims OST playing in the background. I love that OST.

  • @janikarkkainen3904
    @janikarkkainen3904 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome project. I love stuff like this, even started my own project. Tho it's already a few years working on and off on it, and using a 6502 instead of just logic stuff, and on breadboards. Fun stuff and great work getting so deep with this stuff! Now make it in real hardware! 😏 ...I mean, you used logisim so IC counterparts should be relarively easy to come by, VGA might pose some problems but the VGA signal is quite simple in the end...

  • @xXDiggityDawgXx
    @xXDiggityDawgXx10 ай бұрын

    I love love love when people mention how they had xxx subs, then I see the video a year later and they have 10x more. This was so cool, time to binge!

  • @codeplayer8575
    @codeplayer8575 Жыл бұрын

    My friend, you are truly a legend. Congrats!

  • @gawkersdeathrattle1759
    @gawkersdeathrattle1759 Жыл бұрын

    You may want to expand the architecture to add interrupts, although it does complicate things somewhat given that you'll probably want a stack to handle those, and you currently don't have anything stack-ish like jump-to-subroute or returns.

  • @Ehal256

    @Ehal256

    Жыл бұрын

    Was going to mention this. It would make timing quite a bit simpler, no more arbitrary wait N cycle loops, just execute game logic once on every vertical sync interrupt. :)

  • @Frankabyte
    @Frankabyte Жыл бұрын

    This is seriously impressive, and I'm blown away by the amount of time and effort that went into this... ...but can it run DOOM?

  • @neilclay5835
    @neilclay58356 ай бұрын

    Excellent work, nice video presentation as well

  • @shift3yep679
    @shift3yep679 Жыл бұрын

    Holy shit my man your a fucking genius . Everything from using c++ to make the compiler to the emulator to increase processing speed. This is fucking gorgeous!! I would love to pick your brain on ideas and concepts .

  • @gachastorys5129
    @gachastorys5129 Жыл бұрын

    Hey so I have an idea! I think that Z# would fit perfectly as an embed for the computer. It should be its own name language. Kind of like batch is for windows. I’m very impressed by this! Hope to see more videos from you in the future

  • @rezqy_
    @rezqy_ Жыл бұрын

    "I built my own earth"

  • @SusDoctor

    @SusDoctor

    12 күн бұрын

    I built the entire observable universe by scratch with real breathing life forms in it.

  • @Anirudhfou4

    @Anirudhfou4

    3 күн бұрын

    👍

  • @tekkiech3485
    @tekkiech3485 Жыл бұрын

    This video really helped me. Thank you very much!

  • @trupalpatel2329
    @trupalpatel2329 Жыл бұрын

    thank you soo much very direct link n works for me love the way you expressed the installation .

  • @Bobbias
    @Bobbias Жыл бұрын

    One small thing about how you explained your emulator. You conveniently forgot to mention that part of why logisim is so much slower is that it actually simulates things far more in depth than your emulator. A very minor thing, but the way you glossed over it gives the impression that logisim is slow because... It's slow. Rather than because it's doing way more work than your emulator.

  • @DFX2KX

    @DFX2KX

    Жыл бұрын

    and Logisim's speed does depend on whether or not one is using the default 'chips' inside it or not, it has math operators and register modules, and whatnot, but if you eschew that and go down to the individual gates in sub-circuits....

  • @Ehal256

    @Ehal256

    Жыл бұрын

    He does say that logisim is simulating every logic gate, and that's why it's slow. Seemed sufficient to me.

  • @Costelad

    @Costelad

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I was a bit confused at that. Why would they differ in speed so much when they’re both emulators?

  • @Ehal256

    @Ehal256

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Costelad Imagine instead of executing an add instruction directly, you simulate the propagation of electricity through each part of the circuit implementing an add operation.

  • @omegablade89
    @omegablade89 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, I don’t know how old you are, but it’s clear you know your stuff. I hope Intel or Amd contacts you for a job.

  • @JtagSheep

    @JtagSheep

    Жыл бұрын

    Intel x86 is a little more complex than making a 16 bit cpu.

  • @neomage2021
    @neomage2021 Жыл бұрын

    Fun project! I remember having to do this (but 8 bit) in digital electronics class in undergrad for EE.

  • @cheesierglint02
    @cheesierglint02 Жыл бұрын

    Best video ever. This must have taken so much work

  • @The_hot_blue_fire_guy
    @The_hot_blue_fire_guy Жыл бұрын

    Now you need to build this with actual hardware and add a long term memory to it. Like a SD card slot or something that could be used to store data even when the system is turned off.

  • @7.12_am
    @7.12_am Жыл бұрын

    Bet in 2030 he'll be competition for Intel, AMD and NVIDIA after he figures out how to chemically make transistors

  • @LuaanTi

    @LuaanTi

    Жыл бұрын

    You want Sam Zeloof for that :P kzread.info/dash/bejne/pWWBpctwds_Phrw.html

  • @anasmhiri
    @anasmhiri Жыл бұрын

    Bro this is amazing!! Keep going

  • @suvetar
    @suvetar2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this! Very inspirational and please keep up the good work!

  • @therealyojames
    @therealyojames Жыл бұрын

    Hmmmm jdh.

  • @hikaroto2791
    @hikaroto2791 Жыл бұрын

    Dopest video ever, period. My respect sir! Hope one day i can do something as you did!

  • @georgiiliev6944
    @georgiiliev6944 Жыл бұрын

    thank you for sharing this with us!!!

  • @kristoferstoll587
    @kristoferstoll587 Жыл бұрын

    Booooo! I came to see the juggler from the thumbnail! Where is he??? lol. Very cool, what you're doing here, I will say though that seeing that little juggler would have filled my heart and mind with nostalgia! Oh how I loved my Atari ST and Amiga demos!

  • @samarthguleria788
    @samarthguleria78810 ай бұрын

    Your channel gonaa boom, see ya on 1million

  • @kylermellor820
    @kylermellor820 Жыл бұрын

    I found this video because I wanted to design my own version of Pong run on my CPU in Logisim. You beat me to it, but I might do it, anyway. This is awesome!

  • @felixcalderon7258
    @felixcalderon7258 Жыл бұрын

    Holy crap dude, you're so clever! I wish I had the intelligence to understand this stuff as easy as you do its really impressive!!!

  • @Chrls5
    @Chrls5 Жыл бұрын

    oh My God this project is superb, beautiful, great job ❤️

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