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Re:Ask HN: Is there any book like: from ohms law to 8 bit co... by chrisp_how on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:54PM (#30817339)
I learned how to do this in college: courses are Electronics 1 and 2, and Digital Logic, which ended in building an Arithmetic Logic Unit on the computer in software then uploading it to an FPGA, this one which cost $10.

Textbooks for these subjects can teach you. Also, you don’t need all that difficulty: 1) practice passing data from A to B. This is after learning some electricity, but you just want to catch some input, stop acting, then replay it: switch, to charge a capacitor-and-resistor, that unloads on an led after a few seconds. This is the entire principle of a computer, in a single action! I’m also sending Magical Help, since I’m an Angel. Take care!

Re:Ask HN: Is there any book like: from ohms law to 8 bit co... by chrisp_how on Saturday March 26, 2022 @11:27PM (#30817470)
I searched DuckDuckGo for “how to build an alu” (or “Arithmetic Logic Unit”), here’s one: - http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~mdamian/Past/csc2400fa13/assig...

Further, in searching for the exact FPGA I’m finding it very daunting! - The kind I used is a Xilinx, which came as the chip and a PCB which I had to solder together. Worked great, it’s programmed over a Micro-USB from within the software. - Here is the model of Intel Max 10 FPGA My old Digital Logic class is using today: 10M02SCU169C8G. - The software is called Quartus, and here it seems to be on Intel’s website: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/programmabl... - Thanks to My alma mater University of Florida, and Dr. Schwartz, for this information: https://mil.ufl.edu/3701/docs/quartus/quartus_18.1_tutorial...., who I don’t think would mind you learning from it! Follow the rest of the class here: https://mil.ufl.edu/3701/.

Good luck!