>> Looks like fun. I've been playing around with Verilog code lately, and
>> am going to be purchasing an FPGA starter kit soon. A basic CPU is one
>> of the things that I thought would be fun to do in the FPGA, although, I
>> imagine it's been done to death.
> 
> Yup. but isn't that the point of an FPGA? ;)
> 
> I mean... basically to build a custom, application specific, chunk of 
> logic. If it's a customized CPU (er, say a DSP...), then all the more fun.
> 
> It's tempting to get something like an FPGA test board and poke 
> something into it, though.... but I feel this will take some of the "I 
> built it myself" satisfaction from the project.

 From time to time, people try to build ray tracers using FPGA. And, 
occasionally, they make one that out-performs a software ray tracer 
running on a quad-core Xeon or something. So don't go thinking that just 
because it's FPGA it can't be fast; special-purpose machines can and 
sometimes do out-perform general-purpose machines. ;-)

> .... I still have to figure out how to pare this sucker down so I can do 
> the big clacking pile of relays version of it ;)

Uh, yeah. Good luck with that.

You know that the first computers filled entire buildings, right? ;-)

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