MS1 – simple soft processor on FPGA
Everyone has thought about building their own processor at some point, well, maybe not everyone, but I happen to be in that small group of people. Almost from the very beginning of my interest in electronics, I was most fascinated by its digital aspects, and although programming was much more impressive, I enjoyed designing logic circuits the most. In the past, I built various designs that could be called simple processors or microcontrollers, depending on the solutions used. These devices were based on basic logic circuits, and although they were impressive at the time, over time their expansion became increasingly difficult and expensive, especially for someone who had just started high school. Wanting to learn more about the secrets of digital technology, I had to go a step further, and that’s how I became interested in programmable circuits. This led to the creation of new designs based not on many separate chips, but on a single piece of silicon enclosed in an FPGA. However, I will talk about them, as well as the older, logical designs, in another article, because the subject of this text will be one of my most recent projects.
