You are either building cores or depending on those who do. The RISC-V based MYTH Workshop is where you move beyond concepts and actually build a modular, pipelined RISC-V processor from scratch.
https://www.vlsisystemdesign.com/riscv-based-myth/
Instruction fetch, decode, ALU design, memory handling, control flow - every critical block, connected the way real CPUs are built. This is not a simulation exercise. This is how real engineers are made.
The final cohort of the quarter closes in the next 24 hours. If you are serious about mastering processor design, now is the time to act.
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