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How Does a CPU Work and How To Create Your Own Processor

In this video we will design our own CPU. Explained by Steve Hoover
Chapters:
  • 00:00What this video is about
  • 00:39Generating a CPU core
  • 02:09Inside of CPU and how it works
  • 05:58What are registers
  • 07:38Program counter (PC)
  • 11:16How a program is executed in CPU
  • 17:19Logic gates explained
  • 30:34Building our own CPU
  • 39:37Instruction described - what is in it
  • 40:52OPCODE
  • 1:17:44If you would like to learn more
  • 1:18:48Uploading our design to FPGA