Section 8.4: An instruction in micro-detail (Frame 5)                     [prev][home][next]

Now we will go through the 17-line sequence in painful detail. Take a deep breath before continuing to read. It might be handy to have the block diagram of the CSC-1 (Fig. 8.1.1) in front of you so you can identify the components easily as we progress. (This material also closely follows the detailed look at the ADD instruction in Section 7.6.)