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by imglorp 357 days ago
LMI here https://github.com/dseagrav/ld
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Mostly dead. Current Lisp Machine shenanigans related to MIT/LMI are at https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3 ...

Currently working on an accurate model of the MIT CADR in VHDL, and merging the various System source trees into one that should work for Lambda, and CADR.

> Currently working on an accurate model of the MIT CADR in VHDL

Sounds extremely interesting, any links/feeds one could follow the progress at?

The dream of running lisp on hardware made for lisp lives on, against all odds :)

Current work is at http://github.com/ams/cadr4

And of course .. https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3 .

Maybe try replacing the ALU with one written directly in Verilog, I suspect this will run a lot faster than building it up from 74181+74182 components.
From what I see -- that is not the case.

The current state is _very_ fast in simulation to the point where it is uninteresting (there are other things to figure out) to write something as a behavioral model of the '181/'182.

~100 microcode instructions takes about 0.1 seconds to run.

I was thinking more of a behavioral model of the whole ALU, just so that the FPGA tools can map it onto a collection of the smaller ALUs built into each slice.

What clock speed does your latest design synthesize at?