Microprocessor 3 (eBook)

Philippe Darche : Associate Professor, University of Paris (formerly Paris Descartes / Paris V)

Quotation ix

Preface xi

Introduction xv

Chapter 1. Basic and Historical Definitions 1

1.1. Basic definitions 1

1.2. History 3

1.3. Conclusion 15

Chapter 2. Microprocessor Interfacing 17

2.1. Microprocessor bus 17

2.1.1. Address bus 18

2.1.2. Data bus 22

2.1.3. Control bus 23

2.2. Hardware interface 23

2.3. Peripheral logic 24

2.4. Temporal aspects 25

2.4.1. Clock 25

2.4.2. Exchange protocol 34

2.4.3. Asynchronism 37

2.5. Conclusion 38

Chapter 3. Internal Constitution 39

3.1. Registers 39

3.1.1. Definition 40

3.1.2. Accumulators and auxiliary registers 44

3.1.3. Program counter 45

3.1.4. Instruction register 46

3.1.5. Status and control register 46

3.1.6. Index register 53

3.1.7. Indirection register 54

3.1.8. Stack pointer register 54

3.1.9. Special registers 54

3.1.10. Synthesis 55

3.1.11. Register structures 56

3.1.12. Notions related to registers 60

3.2. Internal memories 63

3.3. Integer processing unit 63

3.4. Control unit 69

3.4.1. Internal states 70

3.4.2. Generation of internal synchronization signals 72

3.4.3. Phases of the execution cycle 74

3.4.4. Other subsets 77

3.5. Bus interface 78

3.6. Note 79

3.7. Conclusion 79

Chapter 4. Commercial Microprocessors: From a Single Bit to 128 Bits 81

4.1. Single-bit microprocessor 81

4.2. 4-bit family 82

4.3. 8-bit family 85

4.4. 12-bit family 92

4.5. 16-bit family 92

4.6. 32 bits 94

4.7. New generations 99

4.8. Conclusion 101

Chapter 5. Special Cases 103

5.1. Bit-slice processor 103

5.2. Digital signal processor 104

5.3. Microcontroller 112

5.4. Coprocessor 119

5.5. Parallelism processors 122

5.6. Conclusion 123

Chapter 6. Datasheet 125

6.1. Electrical specifications 125

6.1.1. Supply voltage 125

6.1.2. Power consumption 127

6.1.3. Power supply profiles 128

6.1.4. Energy savings 130

6.1.5. Peripheral components 133

6.2. Processor hardware initialization 134

6.3. Mechanical, electrical and thermal aspects of the package 135

6.4. Conclusion 137

Conclusion of Volume 3 139

Exercises 141

Appendices 151

Acronyms 155

References 179

Index 193