is there a verilog tutorial where you build a very simple microprocessor?

verilog fpga microprocessors
John Lawrence Aspden picture John Lawrence Aspden · Apr 25, 2012 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

I'm a programmer wishing to learn verilog.

What would be amazingly neat would be a tutorial where one constructs a tiny microprocessor with a very clean design, something like an Intel 4004, and then goes on to actually make it using an fpga and gets it to flash LEDs to order.

Is there such a tutorial?

If not, I might have a go at writing one as I try to do it. Has anyone got any recommendations as to resources I might draw on? e.g. nice open source verilog compiler, debugging tools, simulators, verilog tutorials, cheap fpgas and programming tools, breadboards for LEDs, etc.

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John Lawrence Aspden picture John Lawrence Aspden · Apr 26, 2012

I found some glorious slides about an elementary microprocessor here:

http://www.slideshare.net/n380/elementary-processor-tutorial

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