The Dauug House - Dauug|36 minicomputer documentation

Summary

Welcome to the Dauucumentation! This site is the documentation repository for the Dauug|36 minicomputer. 🦖 Do you need a softcopy of this preprint? The world’s most advanced transparently functioning computer Dauug|36 is a 36-bit architecture for owner-built CPUs, controllers, and minicomputers. Only maker-scale assembly tools are necessary, so this architecture can be implemented anywhere on the planet without a semiconductor foundry. All you need is a bare circuit board, about 300 components, and some soldering practice. Even though Dauug|36 doesn’t even have a microprocessor, it offers 36-bit computing with paged virtual memory, preemptive multitasking, and a rich instruction set of nearly 200 opcodes. A computer modeled after your own integrity Many have written about the need for open-source firmware. Of course Dauug|36 delivers this, but it doesn’t stop with the firmware. It’s your own solder that determines and governs the electrical behavior of a Dauug|36 minicomputer. Not somebody else’s secret logic encased in somebody else’s proprietary silicon. A computer where the manufacturer doesn’t lock out the owner Most people have no idea the extent to which tamper protection is added to electronics for the exclusive benefit of the manufacturer. But Dauug|36 makes you the manufacturer. You don’t have to necessarily do the soldering yourself—lots of shops have turnkey board assembly at reasonable prices. When you get your assembled minicomputer, whether your spouse built it or another country built it, everything can be inspected at visible scale, and every net on the circuit board can be accessed via leads and electrically verified at any time. Low complexity is high security Remember all those Rowhammer papers? Dauug|36 prohibits DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) within its security perimeter, so there is never an issue with memory cell leakage that can lead to an exploitable defect. Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Dauug|36 has no memory cache, no speculative ex...