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THE RELATIVELY SIMPLE CPU SIMULATOR – USER MANUAL
The Relatively Simple CPU simulator is an instructional aid for teaching microprocessor design. It allows the user to simulate the flow ofdata within this CPU as it fetches, decodes, and executes instructions. It uses animation to illustrate the flow of data between components, and highlights asserted control signals withinthe CPU. The user can simulate this CPU with a hard-wired control unit or a microcoded control unit.
The Relatively Simple CPU can access 64K bytes of memory, each byte being 8 bits wide.The CPU does this by outputting a 16-bit address on its output pins A[15..0] and reading in the 8-bit value from memory on its inputs D[7..0]. This CPU has two programmer-accessible registers:an 8-bit accumulator labeled AC, and an 8-bit general purpose register R. It also has a 1-bit zero flag, Z. It has sixteen instructions in its instruction set, as shown below.
InstructionInstruction Code Operation
NOP 0000 0000 No operation
LDAC Addr 0000 0001 AC = M[Addr]
STAC Addr 0000 0010 M[Addr] = AC
MVAC 0000 0011 R = AC
MOVR 0000 0100 AC = R
JUMP Addr 0000 0101Goto Addr
JMPZ Addr 0000 0110 IF (Z=1) THEN Goto Addr
JPNZ Addr 0000 0111 IF (Z=0) THEN Goto
ADD 0000 1000 AC = AC + R, If (AC + R = 0) Then Z = 1 Else Z = 0
SUB 0000 1001 AC = AC -R, If (AC - R = 0) Then Z = 1 Else Z = 0
INAC 0000 1010 AC = AC + 1, If (AC + 1 = 0) Then Z = 1 Else Z = 0
CLAC 0000 1011 AC = 0, Z = 1
AND 0000 1100 AC = AC ^ R, If (AC ^ R = 0) Then Z =1 Else Z = 0
OR 0000 1101 AC = AC v R, If (AC v R = 0) Then Z = 1 Else Z = 0
XOR 0000 1110 AC = AC xor R, If (AC xor R = 0) Then Z = 1 Else Z = 0
NOT 0000 1111 AC = AC, If (AC = 0) ThenZ = 1 Else Z = 0
Chapters 3, 6, and 7 of Computer Systems Organization and Architecture show how this CPU was designed in detail.
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