ALU Design
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 93% confidenceCombines adders with two's-complement subtraction into the 8-bit computer's ALU, wiring the chips and checking results on the breadboard; links two earlier Ben Eater videos into one working unit.
What you'll learn
Designing the arithmetic logic unit for the 8-bit computer, using adders and two's-complement subtraction.
Video by Ben Eater, played through YouTube's embedded player.
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