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A Modular 4-Bit CPU Design

daves-dev-labDave's Dev Lab 05/26/2018 at 01:062 Comments

Well.... I have six of the modules completed! The Registers Module is next on the assembly list. It is pretty straight forward assembly and is based mostly on the ALU module from the 4-Bit Architecture Experiments project. I removed the ALU portions from the board and replaced them with a 4-bit latch to hold the resulting arithmetic flags from the Mega-One-8-One ALU. The ALU portion of this project is the most tedious to assemble. The last prototype I assembled took three evenings to complete. There is nothing complicated about the board, there are just a LOT of components that need to be correct....

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Xark wrote 05/26/2018 at 03:08 point

Wow, you seem to be making great progress.  I look forward to seeing your blinkin' lights soon. :-) 

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Dave's Dev Lab wrote 05/26/2018 at 03:12 point

assembly is the easy part! getting down and dirty and making it work is going to be the fun part!

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