The necessities in Computer Design

• control and data paths
• pipeline design
• cache design

Introduction

Combinational Circuits

• Bubble Pushing (pdf)

• See Understanding Arithmetic Circuits

- Carry Look-ahead Adder (CLA)

- Carry Save Adder (CSA)

- Prefix Adder (Prefix)* Multiplier

- Divider

• ALU (Arithmetic Logical Unit)

Sequential Circuits

• Types of Flip-Flops (1A.pdf)
  

• FF Metastability (pdf)
• FF Min Max Timing Constraints (pdf)
• FF Clock Skew Timing Constraints (pdf)

• Synchronizer (pdf)
• Resolution Time Analysis (pdf)

FSM (Finite State Machine)

• FSM State Encoding
• FSM Types : Mealy and Moore Machines
• FSM Example (pdf)

Control Unit Design Techniques

ASM (Algorithmic State Machine)

• ASM (pdf)

- Reese's Lecture Note

One Hot Designs

• One Hot Design (pdf)

Microprogramming

• Microprogramming Design (pdf)

Data Unit Design Techniques

Pipeline

• Pipeline (4A.pdf)
• Latch Based Pipeline (4B.pdf)
  
• Latch Time Borrow (4C.pdf)
  

Multiplier

• Barrel Shifter (3A.pdf)
• Booth Multiplier

Memory System Design Techniques

Cache Memories

• Content Addressable Memory (pdf)
• Address Partition (pdf)
• Cache Mapping (pdf)

IO Design Techniques

Interrupt

• Interrupt (pdf)

Memory Mapped IO

• Memory Mapped IO (pdf)

Intersystem Communication

• Intersystem Communication (pdf)

Practicing Design

Implementation Techniques

• (HW/SW Implementation Overview )

Implementation in Hardware

• (RTL Design Examples)
• (Gate Level Design Examples)
• (Transistor Level Design Examples)

Implementation in Software

• (SW Implementation Without an OS (Bare Machine))
• (SW Implementation with an RTOS)

• valvano

Tiny CPU Architecture Examples

• Instruction Set (pdf)
• Data Path (pdf)
• Control Path (pdf)
• FPGA Implementation (pdf)

C to HDL Exercises

• HDL Exercises (A.pdf)

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External links

• Qucs
• tkgate