Section 7.1: Architecture of the CSC-1 (Frame 5)                     [prev][home][next]

The MAR and MBR are old friends, and work just as described in Chapter 6. Here are some statistics on the CSC-1:

Size of MAR = 12 bits This implies that there are 4096 words in memory.
Size of MBR = 16 bits Each word of memory is 16 bits wide. Thus the CSC-1 is not byte addressable, but rather word addressable.
All other regs = 16 bits wide One word of memory fits snugly into A, S, PC, IR, or TMP