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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)
Do I need another headphone amp? Nah. Do I want to build one? Yeah! And this time one using a low voltage tube, the ECC86.
A basic SoC in Litex contains a Vexriscv CPU, wishbone bus, some RAM, ROM, a timer and a UART peripheral. When talking with a friend about running this all on a macbook, and the gowin IDE being not available for Mac OS he whipped up a small docker container for setting it up, just enter a license file location and good to go! In the style of the original demo, I created a program with that reads the serial port and can execute a few commands to test I2C, gpio, timer interupts and so on.
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