Objectives
- Begin studying a simple but complete CPU, called the CSC-1
- Study the block diagram of the CSC-1, which shows its registers, its
main combinational circuits and the buses (wire sets) that connect them
- Learn more about registers and study the register set of the CSC-1
- Learn how the CSC-1 encodes instructions
- Study the list of CSC-1 instructions
- Learn what control points are and how they coordinate and control the
flow of data throughout the circuits
- Learn about RTL (Register Transfer Language) and how it is used to
describe the actions of the computer
- Study the basic instruction cycle of the CSC-1 and of computers in
general. (This cycle is also known as the fetch/decode/execute cycle.)
- Learn how DFAs are used to make sense of the control functions of
a computer.
- Learn how DFAs can be implemented as logic circuits
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Prerequisites
This chapter introduces new material that will be used through the
next 4 lessons. It is pretty much self-contained, but it does draw
on the combinational and sequential circuits of chapters 4 and 5.
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