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16-bit Dividing

A project log for One-instruction TTL Computer

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

justin-davisJustin Davis 09/12/2017 at 17:540 Comments

I've been programming furiously.  I have 16-bit functions going - Add, Subtract, and Divide.  And I have 8-bit multiply going.  I've changed from putting the operands on the stack to having a dedicated memory location for them.  I have so much memory, it's easier/faster just to hard-code specific locations for them.  Next I'm going to implement the BM9 benchmark program as seen in the APOLLO181 website:

http://apollo181.wixsite.com/apollo181/experiment4-cpu-benchmark

This is also where I got my divider program, except I adapted it for 16-bit words.  I've added these functions to the ROM as subroutines which I can call and return to my main program.  I still have plenty of room in the ROM and RAM, so I don't think I will run out any time soon.  I'd like to get the BM9 program into the ROM so if I ever get to the TTL version of the CPU, I can compare its run time to the FPGA version.

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