Analyzing the vintage 8008 processor from die photos
https://www.electronics-lab.com/analyzing-vintage-8008-processor-die-photos/
Ken Shirriff writes: The revolutionary Intel 8008 microprocessor is 45 years old today (March 13, 2017), so I figured it’s time for a blog post on reverse-engineering its internal circuits. One of the interesting things about old computers is how they implemented things in unexpected ways, and the 8008 is no exception. Compared to modern […]
Reverse-engineering the ALU of 8008 microprocessor
https://www.electronics-lab.com/reverse-engineering-alu-8008-microprocessor/
Ken Shirriff has written an article on reverse engineering the ALU of the 8008 microprocessor: A computer’s arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the heart of the processor, performing arithmetic and logic operations on data. If you’ve studied digital logic, you’ve probably learned how to combine simple binary adder circuits to build an ALU. However, the 8008’s […]