CPU design at the gate level - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Sep 2001

On Sep 21,  9:18, Alan Pearson wrote:

...
  Unfortunately I've lost most of my college notes
now, I guess I've moved
 too many times :-/ I've been looking for a replacement for the Thewlis
 book - can you recommend any which cover CPU logic from the basics of
 how to build registers out of gates up to instruction fetching & decoding?
...
  I'm also very keen to get hold of a book covering
the bitslice processors
 (29xx), any ideas? I can't imagine there's anything left in print now, but
...
  with an author/title or ISBN I might be able to track
down a second-hand
 copy. 
Amongst my collection I have "Microprogrammed Systems Design" by J S
Florentin.

After some preliminaries, it explains the design of two (fictional)
machines, a simple one (not unlike a PDP-8) and then a more complex one
(not unlike a PDP-11) using Am2900 series and TI 74AS888/890 chips.   It
has a large section on the sequencers in the middle, then microprogramming,
and ends up with RISC and other VLSI devices (including later AMD and TI
bit slice families).  It may still be in print; I'm sure I've seen copies
recently.

It's published by Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-54250-9 if you want to look for it.

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