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11. Control Unit, Cont.


  • Control unit includes

    • Instruction Register IR

    • Instruction Pointier IP (aka Program Counter PC)

  • FSM outputs of the control unit,

        - - - - ->
    

    shown by dash lines, have two purposes:

    1. Control processing that takes place inside the ALU.

    2. Authorize read/write gate control of the CPU data-path.

  • Control unit demo: cjumpcxx.exe ->
    CPU, memory, Assembly ->
    Protected memory.

  •   The von Neumann Machine

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