--- title: "StrangeCPU #2. Sliding Window Token Machines" url: https://daily.dev/posts/strangecpu-2-sliding-window-token-machines-o0g8fq6gh source_url: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/399/strangecpu-2-sliding-window-token-machines type: article source: "EmbeddedRelated" published: 2026-05-31T07:48:10.261Z updated: 2026-05-31T09:23:19.228Z tags: ["hardware", "fpga"] reading_time: 19 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # StrangeCPU #2. Sliding Window Token Machines **[EmbeddedRelated](https://daily.dev/sources/embeddedrelated)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A deep dive into Sliding Window Token Machines, a novel CPU design that uses 8/9-bit tokens indexed through a sliding window of 32-bit pointers to address large memory spaces with minimal instruction width. The article covers the dual Red/Blue memory model, threaded code execution mechanics, compilation strategies including table overrun/under-run handling, literal factoring via the pointer table, FPGA scalability from a single BRAM up to large designs, and 16-bit token variants. An ARM Cortex-M3 inner interpreter implementation in FASMARM assembly is included as a practical reference. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [80386 Memory Pipeline](https://daily.dev/posts/80386-memory-pipeline-5tsaukl3g) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware), [#fpga](https://daily.dev/tags/fpga) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/strangecpu-2-sliding-window-token-machines-o0g8fq6gh)