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I have the official AMD design handbooks still with me. It's been in the basement for over 30 years. I remember calling AMD and requesting the handbooks when do
by RajuVarghese 7y ago
I have the official AMD design handbooks still with me. It's been in the basement for over 30 years. I remember calling AMD and requesting the handbooks when doing my master's in CS as my major was microprogramming. The ALU (the 2901 described here) came with a whole family of chips - essentially everything you need to make a CPU.
- undersuit 6y agoI found a link in the author's references that might be the digital version: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/components/amd/Am2900/1979_AMD_2900family.pdf http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/components/amd/... Now I'm going to go read about the High-Speed Look-Ahead Carry Generator.
- kjs3 6y agoWhen you get done with that and want your mind blown, check out the micro-sequence controllers and compliments like the am29803 branch control unit (hardware 'case' statements) and am29811 next address unit (hardware state machine support).