An Original Computing experiment.

OriComp is an experiment/project about creating an entire computer system (from hardware to software) entirely from scratch. Everything that can be designed from scratch has been designed myself. All standards, specifications, protocols, etc. (within reason) were created from scratch.

Many designs take inspiration from already existing architectures, standards, etc. This project does not propose to be better than current technology, but rather a test as to whether a complete computer ecosystem can be created from scratch by one person. For the most part, hardware and software is not guaranteed to be compatible with anything else. What is compatible is mainly for ease of development. For example, the majority of software is written in a language specific to OriComp, but Verilog is still used as the HDL because it would be too large a project to create a new HDL.

It is recommended that potential users clone the oricomp repository. This repo submodules all relevant repositories in OriComp, and is meant to organize the entire project into one repo. The tip of main will have the latest tested version of the project.

For documentation, check out docs. Documentation for every piece of hardware, software, etc. can be found in the linked repo. The documentation is generated and stored there with every tested change to oricomp. If more up-to-date documentation is needed for whatever reason, check the docs folder in the repo corresponding to the hardware, software, etc.