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A project log for JACA 1 & 2 Homebrew Computer

JACA - Just Another CPU Again Homebrew CPU, starting by a simple POC 4-bit CPU on circuit simulator soft. (done), then 8-bit (in progress)

andre-baptistaAndre Baptista 10/24/2017 at 18:400 Comments

Last 2 weeks were very hard to the project... Almost no progress both in Logisim circuit design and breadboards.

I've hit a wall: it became almost impossible to code test programs directly in assembly (with no tool but the Excel to convert to machine code), so I started to develop a simple compiler for a very simplified version of C#. But it (as always) revealed far more dificult than appeared, and the estimated 2 or 3 hours of coding quickly became 10 and far from finish.

Hope to finish this in two weeks at most to return to the main project.

Estimate of completeness so far:
Logisim circuit design: 90%
Real circuit in breadboards: 20%
Compiler: 10%

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