The Cortex-M3 processor provides excellent performance at low gate count and comes with many new features previously avail- able only in high-end processors. The Cortex-M3 addresses the requirements for the 32-
RAM and CPUs are a lot cheaper now than in the 80s, and give us options to create a “Shovel Knight” system: feels 8-bit, but with extra awesomeness. I believe you could do cool stuff with a “discrete graphics” arrangement on the motherboard. Here is a design. Assume static RAM....
A VLSI designer may focus on stuck-at-0 and stuck-at-1 faults only, where the output of a gate is permanently stuck to either a 0 or a 1 regardless of input variations. A system level hardware designer, on the other hand, may be ready to view a failure as any arbitrary or ...