What You Will Learn!
- Mico-Coded Control Unit Design
- Addressing Modes
- Assembler in Python
- CPU Mertrics
- Labels and Declarations
- Port Mapped Input Output
- Memory Mapped Input Output
- The Stack
- Subroutines
- High Level Language Constructs in Assembly Language
- 16 Bit Machine with 90 Instructions
Description
In this course we take what we learned from the first course and expand on the simple 8 bit design and create a 16 bit machine with a maximum of 64 instructions with each instruction having access to 4 different addressing modes. We cover port mapped i/o and memory mapped i/o. We start using a new faster more stable version of Logisim.
The hard wired control unit is replaced with a mixed hardwired and microcoded control unit. We increase the number of general purpose registers from 4 to 6 and add in a temporary register, index register , stack pointer register and floating point unit register.
We design a new assembler in python to help us write the assembly language code with our new larger instruction set.
Finally we add on a keyboard a character display and a graphics display.
The 64 Kbyte address space is split into a ROM that contains the start of an operating system and commonly used subroutines and a RAM that contains the program code and data.
If you want to know how to build a fully functioning 16 bit machine and design some cool assembly language programs then this is the course you need to take.
Don't just read about theory and imaginary machines , build an actual machine that works. It's the best way of learning Computer Architecture Design and Organisation.
Who Should Attend!
- This course is aimed at people who want to learn Computer Architecture Organisation and Design by building their very own Computer as opposed to learning from imaginary machines.