17 Sep 2017 - 5 min read
Control Design: Fetch and Increment
The design of the computer’s memory, incrementer and program counter are now complete but there’s one last piece of the ‘puzzle’ required to get the …
08 Jul 2015 - 6 min read
Sequencer Construction: 8-cycle FSM
I’m just about at the half way mark now for getting the computer to operate the MOV8, ALU and SETAB instructions. The easier cards are out of the way now … time …
22 Mar 2015 - 6 min read
Pulse Distribution Design: Pulses C,D and E
In my last post I covered the design of the 8-cycle finite state machine (FSM). In this post I’ll now take the outputs from that FSM and combine them to produce the …