Build Your Own RISC-V CPU > Even home-brew processors can use hot new tech

It's a certain kind of itch that drives people to voluntarily build their own CPU. We start thinking about the papered-over gap in our understanding, the one that lurks between how logic gates and flip-flops work individually and how machine code controls a fully assembled processor. What exactly happens in the magic zone where hardwired circuits start dancing to software's ever-changing tune?

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The drive to voluntarily build one's own CPU stems from a curiosity about the magic zone where hardwired circuits interact with software, bridging the gap in understanding between logic gates and machine code.