Philips P850 (Was: Classic Computers vs...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Sep 2001

"Tony Duell" wrote:

...
  It is worth seeing just how a processor can be built
from 
 gates and flip-flops (and this will hopefully remove the myth that 
 there's something magical about the design of a CPU). 
A good book was written about this back in the late 80s by 
the bloke who taught us about digital design. I forget the title,
but the author is Peter Thewlis and the book was published by 
the Oxford University Press. Takes you all the way from the
basics of how to build various flip-flops to how to build
registers and an ALU. Excellent fun :)

--al