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Now that we’ve discussed a number of datapath components we’re ready to combine them into actual datapaths. What we are doing here is implementing computations directly in digital circuitry. The datapaths we build are going to have the ability to perform a variety of computations. In succeeding chapters we’ll connect another digital circuit network called a controller to the datapath to fully implement an algorithm. In this chapter we simply put in place the necessary machinery to support whatever computations such an algorithm would require. Not all datapaths need a controller, and we’ll start with those.
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Seiffertt, J. (2017). Datapaths. In: Digital Logic for Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56839-3_15
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