Chapter 11 Dedicated Microprocessors

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Contents
Dedicated Microprocessors........................................................................................................................................... 2
11.1 Manual Construction of a Dedicated Microprocessor................................................................................... 4
11.2 Examples....................................................................................................................................................... 8
11.2.1 Greatest Common Divisor..................................................................................................................... 8
11.2.2 Summing Input Numbers .................................................................................................................... 14
11.2.3 High-Low Guessing Game.................................................................................................................. 19
11.2.4 Finding Largest Number ..................................................................................................................... 25
11.3 VHDL for Dedicated Microprocessors ....................................................................................................... 30
11.3.1 FSM + D Model .................................................................................................................................. 30
11.3.2 FSMD Model ...................................................................................................................................... 35
11.3.3 Behavioral Model................................................................................................................................ 37
11.4 Summary Checklist ..................................................................................................................................... 38
11.5 Problems ..................................................................................................................................................... 38
Index ....................................................................................................................................................................... 46

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Chapter 11 Dedicated Microprocessors

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Chapter 11

Dedicated Microprocessors

Control
Inputs

Data
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Control unit

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Datapath

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Nextstate
Logic

State
Memory

Output
Logic

register

Control
Signals

Status
Signals
Control
Outputs

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ALU

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register

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Data
Outputs

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