A project to teach microprogrammed asynchronous system design

Abstract

Teaching courses in logic and systems design is not complete unless th e students are able to design a logic system as a part of their course work .A project on the design of an asynchronou s computer system is presented in this paper . This system is microprogrammed and has n o master clock to time the micro operations . The computer designed has sixteen machin e instructions, 2K core memory, and a microcomputer with 256 word ROM .

A hardware course for a software curriculum

“…CPS 560-Digital Computer Design, for which CPS 360 is the prerequisite, has bee n extensively documented in previous SIGCSE Bulletins [4,5] . In CPS 560, students hav e previously designed the control and arithmetic/logic units for a small computer .…”