[InfiniteNOP] wanted to get his feet wet writing CPUs and developed a simple 8-bit architecture that would ... tools to simulate and synthesize the CPU, but we thought it might be a good excuse ...

Debugging was a matter of substituting the 2.4576 MHz crystal oscillator clock with a simple 1 Hz 555 timer ... allowing him to talk to his 8-bit computer at up to 38,400 bps.

The 8 bit pipelined Asynchronous pipelined processor and Synchronous ... When a dynamic power advantage of 82% is achieved in simple processor as in this case, it is for sure to get more power ...