Current Events > Wooo my CPU executed two instructions last night.

(+) Yeah! (+)

They were both "load immediate" instructions, but the importnt thing about executing two is that it shows the pipeline is working properly.

Now I just have to get the other fifteen to work and then I can work on the fun stuff like OoO and superpipeline.
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But can it run Crysis?
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Tyranthraxus posted...

But can it run Crysis?

No, and no matter how powerful it gets, running Crysis would require obtaining the Crysis source code and recompiling it because it doesn't follow the x86 or x64 specificaion.

I did consider making it an x64 but I took a look at the instruction set and it's much more complicated than I had expected. I coud probably figure it out if I had a comprehensive reference, but all I could find was an assembly reference--which doesn't help--and a document about instruction encoding that left a lot of stuff unexplained.
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Verilog?
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Polycosm posted...

Verilog?

VHDL. East representin'.
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DevsBro posted...

Polycosm posted...

Verilog?

VHDL. East representin'.

Nice.

Hardest class I ever finished, by the way. But you're over the hump. Good luck!
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I do know a little Verilog though. More C-like compared to the Ada feel of VHDL. We had one class period dedicated to it and the prof said "now if an interviewer asks if you know Verilog, the answer is 'sure, I'll just need to brush up on it some since VHDL is my main thing.'"

I'm one of those weirdos who actually uses Ada by choice, though, so that's a win-win for me.
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Polycosm posted...

DevsBro posted...

Polycosm posted...

Verilog?

VHDL. East representin'.

Nice.

Hardest class I ever finished, by the way. But you're over the hump. Good luck!

Actually I took Computer Architecture in 2012. Of all the groups we had, only my group opted for the multicycle datapath over the single-cycle, and I pretty much did the while thing myself while my partners looked over my shoulder, lol.

But here, six years later and still not working in Computer Architecture like I would like, I decide to put together a portfolio. This time I'm going all out since there's no hard deadline. This one is a Harvard architecture. I don't really k.ow how you would do Von Neumann with a pipelined datapath... which I do plan on researching.

I think I'll look at DSP architecture next.
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Comp Architecure was ROUGH. Currently struggling in Artificial Intelligence but I really am learning a ton.