{"id":1434,"date":"2026-08-09T21:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:17:17","slug":"the-necessity-of-a-smaller-real-cpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/08\/09\/the-necessity-of-a-smaller-real-cpu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity Of A Smaller &#8220;Real CPU&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve crunched as many numbers as I can for now and it looks like full implementations of my larger CPU designs won&#8217;t fit on commodity FPGAs. Larger FPGAs will probably work for testing larger designs but those aren&#8217;t really practical for consumer FPGA-PC models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the immediate goal is an operating system test rig, this probably means I&#8217;ll fall back to smaller and more well-proven\/classic-style 32-bit designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve crunched as many numbers as I can for now and it looks like full implementations of my larger CPU designs won&#8217;t fit on commodity FPGAs. Larger FPGAs will probably work for testing larger designs but those aren&#8217;t really practical for consumer FPGA-PC models. Since the immediate goal is an operating system test rig, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}