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The Ember Console — System Architecture Design: Memory Map

With a well thought out CPU and GPU design, and an input-handling Peripheral Interface Adapter, we will look at the memory map of the new system...

Tom Gambill

1 day ago2 min read

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Peripheral Interface Adapter (PIA) device will interact with keyboards over PS/2 or USB, and game controllers

The Ember PIA — Initial Design Part 1: Peripheral Interface Adapter

Adding keyboard and gamepad support to the Ember design requires a Peripheral Interface Adapter (PIA). This will interact with keyboards and

Tom Gambill

Mar 311 min read

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Designing a custom retro GPU from scratch

The Flame GPU — Initial Design Part 1: Basic Requirements

Designing a custom retro GPU from scratch

Tom Gambill

Mar 141 min read

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The Ember Console — System Architecture Design: Basic Requirements

A high-level picture of the Ember Homebrew Game Console and which other systems we still need to design to create a working system capab

Tom Gambill

Mar 72 min read

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The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 7: Interrupts

rounding out those few remaining instruction types are interrupt handling instructions

Tom Gambill

Feb 241 min read

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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.

Tom Gambill

Feb 181 min read

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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

Tom Gambill

Feb 141 min read

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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..

Tom Gambill

Feb 121 min read

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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.

Tom Gambill

Feb 111 min read

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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.

Tom Gambill

Feb 111 min read

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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...

Tom Gambill

Apr 23, 20221 min read

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Welcome to our new Site!

Welcome to our new website, complete with new blog and page layout, and an early glimpse of a new project we are working on codenamed...

Tom Gambill

Jul 9, 20211 min read

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Home of Project Ember

The Latest Happenings

The Ember Console — System Architecture Design: Memory Map

The Ember PIA — Initial Design Part 1: Peripheral Interface Adapter

The Flame GPU — Initial Design Part 1: Basic Requirements

The Ember Console — System Architecture Design: Basic Requirements

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 7: Interrupts

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 4: Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 3: Opcodes, Operands, and Instruction Encoding

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 2: Registers

The Ember CPU — Initial Design Part 1: Basic Requirements

Ember: Beginnings - Homebrew Retro Video Game Console Design

Vintage Computer Festival East 2022

Welcome to our new Site!

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