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Tom Gambill
1 day ago1 min read
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 6: Jumps and Conditional Branches
Now that we have Load-Store and common ALU instructions, we can add branching and jump instructions to the Ember CPU design.
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Tom Gambill
2 days ago1 min read
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 5: Load-Store and Memory Instructions
In a Load-Store architecture CPU, separate instructions are required to move data from memory into registers or to write data back
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Tom Gambill
3 days ago1 min read
SMD Project: Nintendo Switch Lite SMD USB-C Repair
My nephew brought me his Switch Lite. I decided to take a look at it and see if there was anything I could do to get it working...
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Tom Gambill
4 days ago1 min read
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 4: Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
Now that we have some idea of how instructions are encoded, we can begin designing the instruction set for our CPU, starting with the ALU.
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Tom Gambill
Feb 141 min read
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 3: Opcodes, Operands, and Instruction Encoding
We recently discussed some instruction types and register options; this time, we will dig into some math and look at how we might encode Emb
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Tom Gambill
Feb 121 min read
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 2: Registers
Now that we have the basic design philosophy and some fundamental requirements for our new CPU, consider the types and number of registers..
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Tom Gambill
Feb 111 min read
The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 1: Basic Requirements
The Ember CPU will be the main processor in a virtual video game system reminiscent of those released during the 80s and 90s.
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Tom Gambill
Feb 111 min read
Ember: Beginnings - Homebrew Retro Video Game Console Design
A quick look at the factors behind the Ember CPU design and where we will take it in the future.
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Tom Gambill
Feb 101 min read
Project Ember Blog: Going Old-School: Designing A Custom Homebrew Retro Video Game Console From Scratch
Join me on my journey to design and build a completely new 1980s-era video game console and development platform from the ground up.
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Tom Gambill
Feb 81 min read
Installing a new NVIDIA RTX 4090
NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU It's time to upgrade the GPU in my primary dev machine...first 3-slot card in there...I guess I'll need two more...
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Tom Gambill
Feb 41 min read
SMD Hot Air Rework Station
I got myself a new toy! This should make it way easier to solder SMD boards!
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Tom Gambill
Feb 31 min read
Circuit Design
This week I'm working on another retro PC build, this time a Z80-based design, maybe even with display capability! I also got some...
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Tom Gambill
Jan 301 min read
Focal Point VR Moves Into Autonomous Drones
Streaming VR Video company Focal Point VR announces partnership with Windracers: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/focal-point-vr-announce-c...
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Tom Gambill
Dec 3, 20241 min read
Focal Point VR, A2RL and Vislink win the 'Best Innovation Project' award at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2024
One of my founded companies just won Best Innovation Project at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2024! You can check out the details...
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Tom Gambill
Jan 18, 20241 min read
Getting set up for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Computer Graphics at SIGGRAPH in LA!
Here are a few pics from our setup at the 50th Anniversary Celebration SIGGRAPH conference! Time Tunnel - History of SIGGRAPH - Images,...
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Tom Gambill
Oct 17, 20221 min read
Added an MT32-Pi Zero to the Mister for Sound Support
Using the custom real-time OS created by maker Yavimaya, we can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero to emulate the Roland MT-32 Synthesizer from...
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Tom Gambill
Aug 11, 20221 min read
Great Showing for Games at SIGGRAPH 2022
Especially well represented was the game tech from Guerrilla Games Horizon: Forbidden West. They talked about their ocean and water...
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Tom Gambill
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Oxide Games Announces New Stragegy Game "Ara: History Untold"
A major client of ours, Oxide Games, have recently announced ARA: History Untold. A strategy game in which you can play through...
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Tom Gambill
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Vintage Computer Festival East 2022
This year's VCF East 2022 conference was in person at last. The first two days have been jam-packed with great talks and some amazing...
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Tom Gambill
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Ember CPU Interrupt Handling
It has been a while, lots going on as travel is a thing again and work picks up, but the next installment on the Ember CPU is up. Check...
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