When starting with logic design, there are alot of expressions that you will encounter that can be confusing. Let us start by breaking down the most common expression when it comes to computers: “it’s all ones and zeroes”. But what does it means? Well, in reality, it is […]

The Motorola 68010 CPU has what is called an asyncronous bus. Fancy word, but what does it mean? In simple terms there is two ways of doing things; syncronous or asyncronous. Syncronous means that all involved peaces needs to be in sync in such an way that when […]

So, after putting the CPU in an breadboard, it’s time to start thinking about how memory, ROM and peripherals should be addressed. Now, there are som considerations here that makes things more or less complicated. For this, we need to understand what the CPU does when powered on. […]

When embarking into these kinds of projects, there is of course stuff you need. In this post I will descibe tools that I feel is really neccessary to build stuff without going insane. I will not talk about the chips themselves, but the tools around them that make […]