{"id":59599,"date":"2023-11-17T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=6378654e41685bb302969812bb606db2"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T21:00:22","slug":"supersize-your-intel-4004-by-over-10-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59599","title":{"rendered":"Supersize Your Intel 4004 By Over 10 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Hack a Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to build bigger CPUs, it’s been mostly forgotten. Forgotten that is, until [Klaus Scheffler] supersized it over ten-fold<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The project took about 2 years to complete and re-creates it faithfully – all 2,300 transistors included – enough to run software written for the Intel 4004. But the idea for this project isn’t unique and dates all the way back to 2000, so what gives? Turning a bunch of masks for silicon fabrication into a schematic is actually harder than it seems! [Tim McNerney] originally came up with the idea to make a giant 4004 for its “35th anniversary”. [Tim] managed to convince Intel to give him schematics and other drawings and would in return make an exhibit for Intel’s museum. With the schematic straight from [Frederico Faggin], software analysis tools from [Lajos Kintli] and [Klaus Scheffler] to actually build the thing, they did what [Frederico] did in one year without CAD, but in two with modern tools.<\/p>\n

The full story by [Tim] is a lot longer and it’s definitely worth a read<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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