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A project log for One-instruction TTL Computer

A breadboard-able computer which uses only a single instruction - MOVE

justin-davisJustin Davis 05/19/2017 at 21:490 Comments

So after being on a pesky vacation for a week, I put together a plan for construction of the TTL version. I wanted to be able to test as I go, so I figured I'd order the module construction sequence so I could check the system functionality before moving to the next part. Now I just have to acquire the parts...

  1. Clock circuit with single-step mode
  2. Program counter (low byte only)
  3. Instruction ROM
  4. Src and Dst registers
  5. Control state machine - 3-bit shift reg
  6. Decoding ROMs
  7. Load reg
  8. ALU A
  9. ALU chips
  10. ALU result reg
  11. AEB register
  12. Pointer address register
  13. ROM data tristate buffer (read byte at PC)
  14. PC buffer
  15. Data Ram register (may need to modify to store lower 7 bits of either dst or src so they can be buffered to the ROM)
  16. RAM
  17. UART
  18. Expand PC and data ram high byte

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