Chapter 8
More about the CSC-1


Table of Contents

Test your knowledge          
Quizzes
Practice Exercise
Practice Answers
Indexes
Terms
Figures
Objectives
  1. Continue studying the CSC-1
  2. This chapter provides a basic reference manual for the CSC-1
  3. List the entire RTL of the CSC-1
  4. Tie the RTL to the control points
  5. Trace through a couple instructions in minute detail, showing the values of the control wires
  6. Study how arrays and other complex data structures are implemented using the extremely simple instructions of the CSC-1
  7. Briefly look at a different way to organize the registers and buses and why this is both better and worse than the original CSC-1 design
Prerequisites

You obviously need to fully understand Chapter 7 first. Many of the diagrams and charts of Chapter 7 are reprised and summarized in this Chapter for convenience.