BOOK REVIEW Title: Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs Author: Donnamarie E. White (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) Publisher: Garland STPM Press, 1981 Size: Seven chapters, 147 pages Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs is an introductory book on the design of microarchitectures featuring the Advanced Micro Devices 2900 Famility of bit-slice devices. The book provides a valuable analysis of FIS (Fixed Instruction Set) Microprocessor, Bit-Slice, and SSI/MSI hardwared logic implementation tradeoffs not found elsewhere in literature (Chapter 1). It also contains a detailed functional evolution of a microsequencer (refered to as a controller) and a similar, although not as detailed, functional evolution of the ALU portion of a microarchitecture. The controller design leads up to the Am2909/2911 microprogram sequencers, the Am2910 sequencer, Am29803 testing matrix and Am2913 and Am2914 interrupt chips/devices, while introducing the concepts of branching, pipelining, subroutines, stacks, looping, and vectored and polled interrupt handling (Chapters 2, 3, and 4). The ALU design leads up to the Am2901 and Am2903 chips (Chapters 5 and 6) with detailed explanations of each. The final chapter gives as quick explanation of how local store can be expanded on the ALU bit~ slice (2903) by using "LSI glue" in the form of an Am2905, and how a status register can be added for additional facility (Am2904). In summary, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs is more than just a data book of AMD chips. It contains considerable pedagogical material which offers the reader insight into what functions and features are desirable when designing the data flow of a microarchitecture. This book would make an appropriate supplemental book for introductory courses in microprogramming, and offers good reading material for those practitioners wanting to understand a little more about design tradeoffs and AMDs line of bit-slice devices. Submitted by: William J. Tracz* *The views and opinions expressed here are those of the reviewer who takes full responsibility for error.
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Review of Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs by Donnamarie E. White, Garland STPM Press, 1981
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