How to "Build" a Computer

• Roadmap
• What's a Wire?
• What's a Bus?
• What's a Clock?
• What's a Register?
• How Many Bits To Label N Items?
• What's an Instruction? (8.26.03)
• What's Memory? (8.26.03)
• What's a Tri-State Buffer? (8.27.03)
• What's a Combinational Logic Device? (8.27.03)
• What's a Multiplexer? (8.28.03)
• Understanding the MAR and the MDR (8.28.03)
• Understanding the PC and IR (8.29.03)
• What are the Steps to Execute an Instruction? (8.30.03)
• FSMs and RTLs (9.01.03)
• How Do We Make a Circuit That Fetches an Instruction? (9.03.03)
• What's a Register File? (9.03.03)
• Fetching Operands: How does the IR Interact with the Register File? (9.10.03)
• What's an ALU? (9.10.03)
• Accessing Memory for Loads and Stores (9.15.03)
• Storing ALU Results to the Register File (9.15.03)
• Updating the PC (9.16.03)
• Understanding the Control Unit
• Microprogramming
• Pipelining Basics

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