[ale] OT: faqs.org?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Stephen -

Probably the most actual insight would come from studying CPU designs.  

Those diagrams are generally going to be drawn at a higher level of
abstraction than transistors, resistors, etc. - they're going to be
drawn as blocks and if you drill down, what's in the blocks will be
represented by gates.  At GT, one of the classes I took had as a final
project the design of a CPU - since I was very interested in electronic
music then as now, mine had an unusual component - an internal lookup
table for a quarter of a sine wave, whose output was routed out on a
separate data bus.  There was a special register you could put a binary
word into to change the frequency of the sinewave.  My vision here was
that several of these CPUs put together would form the voice engine of
an additive synthesizer.   

- Jeff

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 21:17, Stephen Turner wrote:
> so theres a site deticated to faqs or white papers is there one to
> like.... curcuit designs? especially computer :) id love to see some of
> the curcuit layouts of a computer... anyone know of where i could possibly
> find such documents? i looked in google the other day and didnt see
> anything off hand
> 
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