A man from Cambridge has the first three modules ready from a processor that is so large that he is a complete wall covering. The man wants the operation of a processor to make it clear by him are extremely large.
The man, James Newman, began last year with the construction of the processor, which, once ready, a surface area of 14 by 2 meters need to take. The ‘megaprocessor’ consists of several modules, each of which is a large frame cover, and a part of the processor form.
In February, he knew the State & Status-module with, among others, the statusregister to complete, followed by the alu in may. Sunday he managed the general-purpose registers ready to get. Now he needs to still work on the modules with special purpose registers, the decodeersectie, the input-output, ram and rom, all on a large scale. Actually was hoping Newman his project by the end of 2014 already complete, but the new deadline is on ‘summer 2015’.
The goal of the technician is that he wants to show how computers exactly work. “The problem is that we can’t shrink it to walk around, but we can reverse that thing big enough,” he writes. In addition, he wants with leds to see how the data is moving in the megaprocessor.
The processor goes from about 14,000 transistors exist, less than the 8086 from Intel, which in 1976 to 29,000 transistors on a surface area of 33mm2 managed to cram. The 16bit megaprocessor with an external bus 8bit wide, a ram, and prom-quantity of 256 bytes. There is a 500W power supply is required for the drive, but the 3500 leds would be a lot of energy.
