An ALU is the heart of a microprocessor, performing its operations. The 74181 appeared in many late-60s and early-70s minicomputers, will be familiar to generations of EE and CS students as the ...

What makes the Gigatron exceptional is the fact that there is no microprocessor; everything is just a RAM, a ROM, and a bunch of logic chips. There is no ALU chip. Or rather, there is; it’s just ...

ALU pipe 0 always carries the older of a pair of issued instructions. The Cortex-A8 processor also has multiplier and load-store pipelines, but these do not carry additional instructions to the two ...

The CPU and memory work together to process instructions and run programs. There are different types of memory – volatile and non-volatile. The Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) is where the CPU ...

A block diagram is shown in Figure 12-1. The processor contains a number of basic pieces. There is a register array of eight 16-bit registers, an ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit), a shifter, a program ...