Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

Post by therein » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 8:46 PM UTC

anonymous908213 wrote: post #16

oofbey wrote: post #8

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It’s amazing and wonderful to see the Internet support these tiny cliques of interest. Having everybody connected leads to homogenization of culture in some ways, but it also supports these couple dozen (?) people around the world finding each other for this amazing little competition.

Having everybody connected leads to homogenization of culture in some ways The internet may hypothetically homogenize culture relative to a society that does not have any kind of mass communication at all, but relative to the world it was actually introduced into, the internet has completely balkanised the culture. Prior to the internet, we had television, cinema, literature, radio, and newspapers, which were all cen…

Post by 8f2ab37a-ed6c » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 8:50 PM UTC

Neywiny wrote: post #10

xphos wrote: post #3

As a computer science guy who interlops in computer engineering i really want to find time to build something cool like this and tapeout. The retro architectures for rendering are simple but fun! I love the project

I recommend getting started like the author did: simulation first, then FPGA. Honestly FPGA will take you very far. I always get a kick out of being able to design my own SoC. "Hmmm I need 9 separate I2C ports... Ok, copy block, paste paste paste..." Or if you have an operation in software that's taking forever you can write an accelerator for it

Post by Uptrenda » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 9:01 PM UTC

Post by layer8 » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 9:43 PM UTC

idiotsecant wrote: post #18

No x, no y, just Z is a pattern so often used by chatGPT it has started to bleed into common usage by people who maybe aren't even using an LLM.

Post by amarant » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 9:47 PM UTC

therein wrote: post #21

anonymous908213 wrote: post #16

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Having everybody connected leads to homogenization of culture in some ways The internet may hypothetically homogenize culture relative to a society that does not have any kind of mass communication at all, but relative to the world it was actually introduced into, the internet has completely balkanised the culture. Prior to the internet, we had television, cinema, literature, radio, and newspapers, which were all cen…

Yeah, back in the day you would go to school the next day after a show that everyone watches released its new episode, it aired on the prime-time slot on the primary TV channel, and you'd discuss what happened in that episode, or have some references or new jokes. Created a common culture.