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DIGITAL CPU DESIGN
We’ve been building up larger and larger components of digital electronic computers, from transistors, to logic gates, to simple machines such as decoders and adders. Now it’s time to put everything together at the top level to make a digital electronic CPU. At least until very recently, the CPU has been the heart of digital electronic computers.
The aim of this chapter is to overcome your fear of digital electronic CPUs. Modern CPUs are probably the second most complex device known to humanity, after the human brain. If you look at a CPU circuit under a microscope and see all the wiring without first preparing your mind, ...
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