From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see Thy Hand, O God-
Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.-R. Kipling
In Chapters 1 through 10, we examined the fundamental principles of digital design. In this chapter and the next, we will focus on applying these techniques to one major class of digital systems: the stored program computer.Introduction
(
1)
fetch the next instruction from memory, (
2)
decode
the instruction to interpret its meaning, and (
3)
execute the instruction by moving and/or operating on data in the registers
and functional units of the data-path.