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In this chapter we discussed processing units and presented a method of designing general purpose computers. The discussion on the CPU components and its hardware and software was brief and its only purpose was to prepare the reader for the second part of the chapter that discussed the design of a CPU. In presenting the design methodology, we used a simple processor and developed its hardware in several incremental steps. This presentation familiarizes the reader with hardware details of complex CPU architectures and prepares the reader for the CPU example that we will present in the second part of this book.
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Navabi, Z. (2005). Computer Architecture. In: Digital Design and Implementation with Field Programmable Devices. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8012-3_5
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