Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

“Mvidia” is a “Show HN” project presenting an interactive game designed to educate users on the intricate process of building a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) from its foundational components. The author created the game due to a perceived lack of accessible resources for learning GPU architecture.The game is structured into acts, guiding players through increasing levels of complexity:<ul><li><b>Act 1: Your First Day</b> focuses on the transition from basic transistors (NMOS, PMOS) to fundamental logic gates (NAND, AND, OR, XOR), teaching the elementary building blocks of digital logic.</li><li><b>Act 2: The Core</b> delves deeper, covering the construction of essential processor components such as half and full adders, capacitors, memory elements like latches and register files, and ultimately culminating in the assembly of an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) and a basic processor core with fetch, decode, and execute cycles. It also introduces DRAM memory concepts.</li><li><b>Future Acts (Coming Soon)</b> promise to extend the journey into software programming for the processor, the full construction of a GPU, and finally, programming the GPU's shaders.</li></ul>This project offers a unique, gamified approach to understanding complex hardware, making it an engaging and potentially invaluable tool for aspiring hardware engineers or anyone curious about the inner workings of a GPU.