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Building a 4-Bit Computer: Mitigating Metastability (Part 2)

Here are some of the main reasons why metastability may occur in our designs and some of the ways in which we can mitigate its effects In my previous column, we introduced the concept of setup and ...
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4-bit Single Board Computer Based On The Intel 4004 Microprocessor

[Scott Baker] is at it again and this time he has built a 4-bit single board computer based on the Intel 4004 microprocessor. In the board design [Scott] covers the CPU (both the Intel 4004 and 4040 ...
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Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic ...
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Imagining The CPS-1: An Early 70s 4-bit Microcomputer From Canada

[Michael Gardi] wrote in to let us know about his project: CPS-1: Imagining An Early 70s 4-bit Microcomputer. The CPS-1 was the first Canadian microprocessor-based computer. It was built by ...