Highlights implies (and I will now state explicitly)
that not every idea or concept in Chapter 7 is listed below... just the
ones I thought were most important. You are still responsible for any
material in Chapter 7, regardless of whether it appears below or not.
You can skip sections 7-4, 7-7, 7-10, and 7-11. My highlights from Chapter 7:
| Section |
Highlights |
| 7-1 |
Terms: register, counter, loading, parallel loading |
| 7-2 |
Terms: datapath, control unit, micro-operation
Fig 7-3 shows a nice overview of datapath and control unit
integration |
| 7-3 |
Know the basic language for expressing register
transfers; Tables 7-1 and 7-2 may help you.. |
| 7-5 |
Know the four types of micro-operations (transfer,
arithmetic, logic, shift) and understand each as they appear in
Tables 7-3 through 7-5. |
| 7-6 |
Register transfer design using muxes
Ripple counter vs. synchronous counter
Serial vs. parallel counter
Counter flavors: up-down counter, divide-by-N counter, BCD
counter, arbitrary sequence counter |
| 7-8 |
Dedicated mux design vs. tristate bus design. Fig
7-19 shows a nice example of the two styles |
| 7-9 |
Serial addition |
yow, bill |