The Necessity Of A Smaller “Real CPU”

I’ve crunched as many numbers as I can for now and it looks like full implementations of my larger CPU designs won’t fit on commodity FPGAs. Larger FPGAs will probably work for testing larger designs but those aren’t really practical for consumer FPGA-PC models.

Since the immediate goal is an operating system test rig, this probably means I’ll fall back to smaller and more well-proven/classic-style 32-bit designs.

Development of the larger CPU will remain active as I can probably continue with that on larger boards, it will just take a lower priority than getting a minimal working model out!