{"id":25,"date":"2009-02-13T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T12:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2009-02-15T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T13:50:46","slug":"project-utopium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Project Utopium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For just over two weeks now I have been designing an asynchronous processor. The working name is &#8220;Utopium&#8221; (a play on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/3442434\/The-Lutonium-a-subnanojoule-asynchronous-8051-microcontroller\">Lutonium<\/a>&#8220;). It&#8217;s an 8051 Currently I am completing the instruction set.<\/p>\n<p>There is a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio.feld.cvut.cz\/personal\/matejka\/download\/it8051.pdf\">instruction set table<\/a> I am using to mark which instructions it can currently execute. Everything highlighted in pink is done. This was the state on the 6th of February:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/utopium_6feb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-26 alignnone\" title=\"utopium_6feb\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/utopium_6feb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"utopium_6feb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was the state on the 11th of February:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/utopium_11feb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-27 alignnone\" title=\"utopium_11feb\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/utopium_11feb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"utopium_11feb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And finally this is now (13th February):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/utopium_13feb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-29\" title=\"utopium_13feb\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/utopium_13feb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"utopium_13feb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The easy common instructions are done, so that just leaves the reather nasty ones which will be like pushing a pea up a mountain using my nose. So far I learned two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The 8 bit micros were designed by either a higher power which I cannot hope to comprehend, or they are a result of top secret illegal government experiments involving LSD and computer engineers.<\/li>\n<li>I should have used the highlighter with most ink.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So far it is 13,948 gates but that should hopefuly go down a bit once I do slightley more intelligent caches although it will also go up once I implement all the instructions. And the performance is a fantastic 30 MIPS which will go up quite a bit once I add the half bufffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For just over two weeks now I have been designing an asynchronous processor. The working name is &#8220;Utopium&#8221; (a play on &#8220;Lutonium&#8220;). It&#8217;s an 8051 Currently I am completing the instruction set. There is a nice instruction set table I am using to mark which instructions it can currently execute. Everything highlighted in pink is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}