Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs
by Donnamaie E. White
Copyright © 1996, 2001, 2002, 2008 Donnamaie E. White
- Pre-Introduction
- Selection of the Implementation
- Microprogramming
- Advantages of LSI
- The 2900 Family
- Language Interrelationships
- Controller Design
- Constructing the CCU
- Sequential Execution
- Multiple Sequences
- Start Addresses
- Mapping PROM
- Unconditional Branch
- Conditional Branch
- Timing Considerations
- Pipelining
- Improved Architecture
3. Adding Programming Support to the Controller
- Expanded Testing
- Subroutines
- Nested Subroutines
- Stack Size
- Loops
- Am29811
- Am2909/11
- CASE Statement (Am29803A)
- Microprogram Memory
- Status Polling
- Interrupt Servicing
- Implementation - Interrupt Request Signals
- Vector Mapping PROM
- Next Address Control
- Am2910
- Am2910 Instructions
- JZ, CONT, JMAP
- CJP, CJV, LDCT, JRP, CJS
- JSRP, CRTN, RPCT, PUSH
- LOOP, CJPP, TWB
- Control Lines
- Interrupt Handling
- Am2914
- Interconnection of the Am2914
6. The ALU and Basic Arithmetic
- Further Enhancements
- Instruction Fields
- Instruction Set Extensions
- Sample Operations
- Arithmetic -- General
- Multiplication with the Am2901
- Am2903 Multiply
Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUsby Donnamaie E. WhiteRevamped from HTML 1.0 July, 2001 On-Line as an HTML eBook since 1995 Original Cover, Inside CoverThis book was created while I was the Director of Customer Education at Advanced Micro Devices, 1978-1981. For a current bio and vitae, see www.Donnamaie.com
Original Hardcover Book Copyright - 1981
The hardcover book is out of print.The Am2900 Family of devices no longer exist as products of AMD.Where to find it now:AMD no longer produces the Am2910 but it lives on in emulators, FPGAs, PLAs and code. In the current listings, I found it as a classroom exercise in Design Synthesis, in another form as a mega-function (IP) and in a design completed as a lab exercise (complete with the Am2901). It was just "too cool to lose" as far as the design community is concerned. As an IP:An IP product - Intellectual Property - or "mega-function" - that allows the functionality of a controller to be "dropped into" a much larger ASIC.Am2910: http://www.altera.com/products/ip/ampp/cast/m-cas-2910a.html Product List: http://www.altera.com/products/ip/ampp/cast/cast.html#products http://www.celeritous.com/public/cores.pdf The Am2910 in VerilogThey have been coded in VHDL, coded in Verilog and emulated by several companies. The Am2910 and Am2901 are used in classrooms and design labs all over the country. The UCLA Design Project:http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~kihong/cs152b/index.html http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/winter01/csm152b/ They remain a very popular series.Other Links
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