CS - Week 8 - Slide 20 - Logic Arrays and Designing a Basic CPU

Introduce the idea of logic arrays:

• State what logic arrays are

• what software tools can do with logic arrays

• a benefit

• types of logic array

Describe the Programmable logic arrays (PLAs):

• State which logic gates are used

• the notation for inputs, implicants and outputs

Describe how a 3×3×2 bit PLA would look like with A, B and C as inputs:

Describe what is meant by a FPGA

Describe how FPGAs are built:

• State a use of a FPGA

Compare PLAs and FPGAs

Introduce the concept of hardware descriptive languages:

• Describe VHDL

Within the context of designing a CPU define how to construct/ the use of the following:

• register

• RAM

• ALU

• Finite State machine

• Hardware description languages

Describe the basic outline of a CPU

Describe the basic ARM architecture:

• define architecture

Describe/define:

• instructions

• instruction set

• operations

• operands