Chapter 5:

Basic Computer Organization and

Design

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 5-1 Instruction Codes
• The Internal organization of a digital
system is defined by the sequence of
microoperations it performs on data
stored in its registers
• The user of a computer can control the
process by means of a program
• A program is a set of instructions that
specify the operations, operands, and the
processing sequence
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 5-1 Instruction Codes cont.

• A computer instruction is a binary code that

specifies a sequence of micro-operations for the
computer. Each computer has its unique
instruction set
• Instruction codes and data are stored in memory
• The computer reads each instruction from
memory and places it in a control register
• The control unit interprets the binary code of the
instruction and proceeds to execute it by issuing
a sequence of micro-operations

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 5-1 Instruction Codes cont.
• An Instruction code is a group of bits that
instructs the computer to perform a
specific operation (sequence of
microoperations). It is divided into parts
(basic part is the operation part)
• The operation code of an instruction is a
group of bits that defines certain
operations such as add, subtract, shift,
and complement

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 5-1 Instruction Codes cont.

• The number of bits required for the

operation code depends on the total
number of operations available in the
computer
• 2n (or little less) distinct operations  n
bit operation code

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5-1 Instruction Codes cont.

Memory It’s an
ADD
operation
Op code
Control
110010?????????? Unit

Read instruction
from memory

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 5-1 Instruction Codes cont.

• An operation must be performed on some

data stored in processor registers or in
memory
• An instruction code must therefore specify
not only the operation, but also the
location of the operands (in registers or in
the memory), and where the result will be
stored (registers/memory)

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 5-1 Instruction Codes cont.

• Memory words can be specified in instruction

codes by their address
• Processor registers can be specified by
assigning to the instruction another binary
code of k bits that specifies one of 2k registers
• Each computer has its own particular
instruction code format
• Instruction code formats are conceived by
computer designers who specify the
architecture of the computer
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 5-1 Instruction Codes cont.
Stored Program Organization
• An instruction code is usually divided into
operation code, operand address,
addressing mode, etc.
• The simplest way to organize a computer
is to have one processor register
(accumulator AC) and an instruction code
format with two parts (op code, address)

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 5-1 Instruction Codes
Stored Program Organization
cont.
15 12 11 0 Memory
Opcode Address 15
4096x16 0

Instruction Format
Instructions
15 0
(program)
Binary Operand

Operands
(data)

15 0

Processor register
(Accumulator AC)

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 5-1 Instruction Codes
Indirect Address
• There are three Addressing Modes used for
address portion of the instruction code:
– Immediate: the operand is given in the address
portion (constant)
– Direct: the address points to the operand stored
in the memory
– Indirect: the address points to the pointer
(another address) stored in the memory that
references the operand in memory
• One bit of the instruction code can be used to
distinguish between direct & indirect addresses
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5-1 Instruction Codes
Indirect Address cont.
Instruction Format Effective
15 14 12 11 0 address
I Opcode Address

Direct Address Indirect address

22 0 ADD 457 35 1 ADD 300

300 1350

457 Operand

1350 Operand

+ +
AC AC

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 5-1 Instruction Codes
Indirect Address cont.
• Effective address: the address of the
operand in a computation-type instruction
or the target address in a branch-type
instruction
• The pointer can be placed in a processor
register instead of memory as done in
commercial computers

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 5-2 Computer Registers
• Computer instructions are normally stored
in consecutive memory locations and
executed sequentially one at a time
• The control reads an instruction from a
specific address in memory and executes
it, and so on
• This type of sequencing needs a counter
to calculate the address of the next
instruction after execution of the current
instruction is completed

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 5-2 Computer Registers cont.

• It is also necessary to provide a register in

the control unit for storing the instruction
code after it is read from memory
• The computer needs processor registers
for manipulating data and a register for
holding a memory address

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 In order to cover the basic
concepts behind designing a
computer, a model (an imaginary
system) will be presented to you
throughout this chapter. This
model will be called the “Basic
Computer”

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 Registers in the Basic Computer
11 0
PC
11 0
AR Memory

15 0 4096 x 16
IR
15 0 15 0
TR DR
7 0 7 0 15 0
OUTR INPR AC

List of BC Registers
DR 16 Data Register Holds memory operand
AR 12 Address Register Holds address for memory
AC 16 Accumulator Processor register
IR 16 Instruction Register Holds instruction code
PC 12 Program Counter Holds address of instruction
TR 16 Temporary Register Holds temporary data
INPR 8 Input Register Holds input character
OUTR 8 Output Register Holds output character

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 S2
S1 Bus
S0
Memory unit 7
4096 x 16
Address
Write Read
AR 1

LD INR CLR
PC 2

LD INR CLR

DR 3

LD INR CLR
E
Adder
and
logic
AC 4 Computer Registers
LD INR CLR Common Bus System
INPR
IR 5
LD
TR 6
LD INR CLR
OUTR
Clock
LD
16-bit common bus

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 5-2 Computer Registers
Common Bus System cont.
• S2S1S0: Selects the register/memory that would
use the bus
• LD (load): When enabled, the particular register
receives the data from the bus during the next
clock pulse transition
• E (extended AC bit): flip-flop holds the carry
• DR, AC, IR, and TR: have 16 bits each
• AR and PC: have 12 bits each since they hold a
memory address
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 5-2 Computer Registers
Common Bus System cont.
• When the contents of AR or PC are
applied to the 16-bit common bus, the four
most significant bits are set to zeros
• When AR or PC receives information from
the bus, only the 12 least significant bits
are transferred into the register
• INPR and OUTR: communicate with the
eight least significant bits in the bus

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 5-2 Computer Registers
Common Bus System cont.
• INPR: Receives a character from the input
device (keyboard,…etc) which is then
transferred to AC
• OUTR: Receives a character from AC and
delivers it to an output device (say a Monitor)
• Five registers have three control inputs: LD
(load), INR (increment), and CLR (clear)
• Register  binary counter with parallel load and
synchronous clear

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 5-2 Computer Registers
Memory Address
• The input data and output data of the memory
are connected to the common bus
• But the memory address is connected to AR
• Therefore, AR must always be used to specify a
memory address
• By using a single register for the address, we
eliminate the need for an address bus that would
have been needed otherwise

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 5-2 Computer Registers
Memory Address cont.
• Register  Memory: Write operation
• Memory  Register: Read operation (note
that AC cannot directly read from
memory!!)
• Note that the content of any register can
be applied onto the bus and an operation
can be performed in the adder and logic
circuit during the same clock cycle

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 5-2 Computer Registers
Memory Address cont.
• The transition at the end of the cycle
transfers the content of the bus into the
destination register, and the output of the
adder and logic circuit into the AC
• For example, the two microoperations
DR←AC and AC←DR (Exchange)
can be executed at the same time
• This is done by:
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 5-2 Computer Registers
Memory Address cont.
• 1- place the contents of AC on the bus
(S2S1S0=100)
• 2- enabling the LD (load) input of DR
• 3- Transferring the contents of the DR
through the adder and logic circuit into AC
• 4- enabling the LD (load) input of AC
• All during the same clock cycle
• The two transfers occur upon the arrival of
the clock pulse transition at the end of the
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5-3 Computer Instructions

Basic Computer Instruction code format

Memory-Reference Instructions (OP-code = 000 ~ 110)

15 14 12 11 0
I Opcode Address

Register-Reference Instructions (OP-code = 111, I = 0)

15 12 11 0
0 1 1 1 Register operation

Input-Output Instructions (OP-code =111, I = 1)

15 12 11 0
1 1 1 1 I/O operation

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 BASIC COMPUTER
INSTRUCTIONS
Symbol
Hex Code
I=0 I=1 Description
AND 0xxx 8xxx AND memory word to AC
ADD 1xxx 9xxx Add memory word to AC
LDA 2xxx Axxx Load AC from memory
STA 3xxx Bxxx Store content of AC into memory
BUN 4xxx Cxxx Branch unconditionally
BSA 5xxx Dxxx Branch and save return address
ISZ 6xxx Exxx Increment and skip if zero

CLA 7800 Clear AC

CLE 7400 Clear E
CMA 7200 Complement AC
CME 7100 Complement E
CIR 7080 Circulate right AC and E
CIL 7040 Circulate left AC and E
INC 7020 Increment AC
SPA 7010 Skip next instr. if AC is positive
SNA 7008 Skip next instr. if AC is negative
SZA 7004 Skip next instr. if AC is zero
SZE 7002 Skip next instr. if E is zero
HLT 7001 Halt computer

INP F800 Input character to AC

OUT F400 Output character from AC
SKI F200 Skip on input flag
SKO F100 Skip on output flag
ION F080 Interrupt on
IOF F040 Interrupt off
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 5-3 Computer Instructions
Instruction Set Completeness
• The set of instructions are said to be
complete if the computer includes a
sufficient number of instructions in each of
the following categories:
– Arithmetic, logical, and shift instructions
– Instructions for moving information to and
from memory and processor registers
– Program control instructions together with
instructions that check status conditions
– Input & output instructions
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 5-4 Timing & Control
• The timing for all registers in the basic
computer is controlled by a master clock
generator
• The clock pulses are applied to all flip-
flops and registers in the system, including
the flip-flops and registers in the control
unit
• The clock pulses do not change the state
of a register unless the register is enabled
by a control signal (i.e., Load)
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 5-4 Timing & Control cont.

• The control signals are generated in the

control unit and provide control inputs for
the multiplexers in the common bus,
control inputs in processor registers, and
microoperations for the accumulator
• There are two major types of control
organization:
– Hardwired control
– Microprogrammed control

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 5-4 Timing & Control cont.

• In the hardwired organization, the control

logic is implemented with gates, flip-flops,
decoders, and other digital circuits.
• In the microprogrammed organization, the
control information is stored in a control
memory (if the design is modified, the
microprogram in control memory has to be
updated)
• D3T4: SC←0
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The Control Unit for the basic computer
Instruction register (IR)
15 14 13 12 11 - 0 Other inputs

3x8
decoder
7 6543 210
D0
I
D7 Control Control
logic outputs
gates
T15
T0

15 14 . . . . 2 1 0
4 x 16
Sequence decoder

4-bit Increment (INR)

sequence Clear (CLR)
counter
(SC) Clock

Hardwired Control
Organization
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- Generated by 4-bit sequence counter and 4x16 decoder
- The SC can be incremented or cleared.

- Example: T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T0, T1, . . .

Assume: At time T4, SC is cleared to 0 if decoder output D3 is active.
D3T4: SC  0
T0 T1 T2 T3 T4 T0
Clock

T0

T1

T2

T3

T4

D3

CLR
SC

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 5-4 Timing & Control cont.
• A memory read or write cycle will be initiated
with the rising edge of a timing signal
• Assume: memory cycle time < clock cycle time!
• So, a memory read or write cycle initiated by a
timing signal will be completed by the time the
next clock goes through its positive edge
• The clock transition will then be used to load the
memory word into a register
• The memory cycle time is usually longer than
the processor clock cycle  wait cycles

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 5-4 Timing & Control cont.

• T0: AR←PC
– Transfers the content of PC into AR if timing signal T0
is active
– T0 is active during an entire clock cycle interval
– During this time, the content of PC is placed onto the
bus (with S2S1S0=010) and the LD (load) input of AR
is enabled
– The actual transfer does not occur until the end of the
clock cycle when the clock goes through a positive
transition
– This same positive clock transition increments the
sequence counter SC from 0000 to 0001
– The next clock cycle has T1 active and T0 inactive
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 5-5 Instruction Cycle
• A program is a sequence of instructions
stored in memory
• The program is executed in the computer
by going through a cycle for each
instruction (in most cases)
• Each instruction in turn is subdivided into a
sequence of sub-cycles or phases

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 Instruction Cycle
. cont
5-5
• Instruction Cycle Phases:
– 1- Fetch an instruction from memory
– 2- Decode the instruction
– 3- Read the effective address from memory if
the instruction has an indirect address
– 4- Execute the instruction
• This cycle repeats indefinitely unless a
HALT instruction is encountered

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 5-5 Instruction Cycle
Fetch and Decode
• Initially, the Program Counter (PC) is
loaded with the address of the first
instruction in the program
• The sequence counter SC is cleared to 0,
providing a decoded timing signal T0
• After each clock pulse, SC is incremented
by one, so that the timing signals go
through a sequence T0, T1, T2, and so on
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 5-5 Instruction Cycle
Fetch and Decode cont.
– T0: AR←PC (this is essential!!)
The address of the instruction is moved to AR.

– T1: IR←M[AR], PC←PC+1

The instruction is fetched from the memory to
IR ,
and the PC is incremented.

– T2: D0,…, D7←Decode IR(12-14), AR←IR(0-11),

I←IR(15)
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BC Instruction cycle: [Fetch Decode [Indirect] Execute]*
• Fetch and Decode T0: AR PC (S0S1S2=010, T0=1)
T1: IR  M [AR], PC  PC + 1 (S0S1S2=111, T1=1)
T2: D0, . . . , D7  Decode IR(12-14), AR  IR(0-11), I  IR(15)

T1 S2

T0 S1 Bus

S0
Memory
7
unit
Address
Read

AR 1

LD
PC 2

INR

IR 5

LD Clock
Common bus
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 Start DETERMINE THE TYPE OF
SC  0
INSTRUCTION
T0
AR  PC
T1
IR  M[AR], PC  PC + 1
T2
Decode Opcode in IR(12-14),
AR  IR(0-11), I  IR(15)

(Register or I/O) = 1 = 0 (Memory-reference)

D7

(I/O) = 1 = 0 (register) (indirect) = 1 = 0 (direct)

I I

T3 T3 T3 T3
Execute Execute AR  M[AR] Nothing
input-output register-reference
instruction instruction
SC  0 SC  0 Execute T4
memory-reference
instruction
SC  0

D'7IT3: AR M[AR]
D'7I'T3: Nothing
D7I'T3: Execute a register-reference instr.
D7IT3: Execute an input-output instr.

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REGISTER REFERENCE INSTRUCTIONS
Register Reference Instructions are identified when
- D7 = 1, I = 0
- Register Ref. Instr. is specified in B0 ~ B11 of IR
- Execution starts with timing signal T 3

r = D7 I’ T3 => Register Reference Instruction

Bi = IR(i) , i=0,1,2,...,11, the ith bit of IR.
r: SC  0
CLA rB11: AC  0
CLE rB10: E0
CMA rB9: AC  AC’
CME rB8: E  E’
CIR rB7: AC  shr AC, AC(15)  E, E  AC(0)
CIL rB6: AC  shl AC, AC(0)  E, E  AC(15)
INC rB5: AC  AC + 1
SPA rB4: if (AC(15) = 0) then (PC  PC+1)
SNA rB3: if (AC(15) = 1) then (PC  PC+1)
SZA rB2: if (AC = 0) then (PC  PC+1)
SZE rB1: if (E = 0) then (PC  PC+1)
HLT S  Organization
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 5.6 MEMORY REFERENCE INSTRUCTIONS

Operation
Symbol Symbolic Description
Decoder
AND D0 AC  AC  M[AR]
ADD D1 AC  AC + M[AR], E  Cout
LDA D2 AC  M[AR]
STA D3 M[AR]  AC
BUN D4 PC  AR
BSA D5 M[AR]  PC, PC  AR + 1
ISZ D6 M[AR]  M[AR] + 1, if M[AR] + 1 = 0 then PC  PC+1
- The effective address of the instruction is in AR and was placed there during
timing signal T2 when I = 0, or during timing signal T3 when I = 1
- Memory cycle is assumed to be short enough to be completed in a CPU cycle
- The execution of MR Instruction starts with T 4
AND to AC
D0T4: DR  M[AR] Read operand
D0T5: AC  AC  DR, SC  0 AND with AC
ADD to AC
D1T4: DR  M[AR] Read operand
D1T5: AC  AC + DR, E  Cout, SC  0 Add to AC and store carry in E
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 MEMORY REFERENCE
LDA: Load to AC INSTRUCTIONScont.
D2T4: DR  M[AR]
D2T5: AC  DR, SC  0
STA: Store AC
D3T4: M[AR]  AC, SC  0
BUN: Branch Unconditionally
D4T4: PC  AR, SC  0
BSA: Branch and Save Return Address
M[AR]  PC, PC  AR + 1
Memory, PC, AR at time T4 Memory, PC after execution
20 0 BSA 135 20 0 BSA 135
Return address: PC = 21 Next instruction 21 Next instruction

AR = 135 135 21
136 Subroutine PC = 136 Subroutine

1 BUN 135 1 BUN 135

Memory Memory
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 Memory Reference
.
Instructionscont

BSA: executed in a sequence of two micro-operations:

D5T4: M[AR]  PC, AR  AR + 1
D5T5: PC  AR, SC  0

ISZ: Increment and Skip-if-Zero

D6T4: DR  M[AR]
D6T5: DR  DR + 1
D6T6: M[AR]  DR, if (DR = 0) then (PC  PC + 1), SC  0

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 Memory-reference instruction

AND ADD LDA STA

D0 T 4 D1 T 4 D2 T 4 D 3T 4
DR M[AR] DR M[AR] DR  M[AR] M[AR]  AC
SC  0

D0 T 5 D1 T 5 D2 T 5
AC  AC  DR AC  AC + DR AC  DR
SC <- 0 E  Cout SC  0
SC  0

BUN BSA ISZ

D4 T 4 D5 T 4 D6 T 4

PC  AR M[AR]  PC DR  M[AR]
SC  0 AR  AR + 1

D5 T 5 D6 T 5

PC  AR DR  DR + 1
SC  0
D6 T 6
M[AR]  DR
If (DR = 0)
then (PC  PC + 1)
SC  0

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 5-7 Input-Output and Interrupt
• Instructions and data stored in memory
must come from some input device
• Computational results must be transmitted
to the user through some output device
• For the system to communicate with an
input device, serial information is shifted
into the input register INPR
• To output information, it is stored in the
output register OUTR
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5-7 Input-Output and
Interruptcont.

Input-output Serial registers and

terminal communication Computer
interface flip-flops
Receiver
Printer interface OUTR FGO

AC

Transmitter
Keyboard interface INPR FGI

Serial Communications Path

Parallel Communications Path

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 5-7 Input-Output and
Interruptcont.
• INPR and OUTR communicate with a
communication interface serially and with
the AC in parallel. They hold an 8-bit
alphanumeric information
• I/O devices are slower than a computer
system  we need to synchronize the
timing rate difference between the
input/output device and the computer.
• FGI: 1-bit input flag (Flip-Flop) aimed to
control the input operation
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 5-7 Input-Output and Interrupt
cont.

• FGI is set to 1 when a new information is

available in the input device and is cleared
to 0 when the information is accepted by
the computer
• FGO: 1-bit output flag used as a control
flip-flop to control the output operation
• If FGO is set to 1, then this means that the
computer can send out the information
from AC. If it is 0, then the output device is
busy and the computer has to wait!
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 5-7 Input-Output and
Interruptcont.
• The process of input information transfer:
– Initially, FGI is cleared to 0
– An 8-bit alphanumeric code is shifted into
INPR (Keyboard key strike) and the input flag
FGI is set to 1
– As long as the flag is set, the information in
INPR cannot be changed by another data
entry
– The computer checks the flag bit; if it is 1, the
information from INPR is transferred in
parallel into AC and FGI is cleared to 0
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 5-7 Input-Output and
Interruptcont.
– Once the flag is cleared, new information can
be shifted into INPR by the input device
(striking another key)
• The process of outputting information:
– Initially, the output flag FGO is set to 1
– The computer checks the flag bit; if it is 1, the
information from AC is transferred in parallel
to OUTR and FGO is cleared to 0
– The output accepts the coded information
(prints the corresponding character)
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 5-7 Input-Output and
Interruptcont.
– When the operation is completed, the output
device sets FGO back to 1
– The computer does not load a new data
information into OUTR when FGO is 0
because this condition indicates that the
output device is busy to receive another
information at the moment!!

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 Input-Output Instructions
• Needed for:
– Transferring information to and from AC register
– Checking the flag bits
– Controlling the interrupt facility
• The control unit recognize it when D7=1 and I = 1
• The remaining bits of the instruction specify the
particular operation
• Executed with the clock transition associated with
timing signal T3
• Input-Output instructions are summarized next
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 Input-Output Instructions
D7IT3 = p
IR(i) = Bi, i = 6, …, 11

INP pB11: AC(0-7)  INPR, FGI  0 Input char. to AC

OUT pB10: OUTR  AC(0-7), FGO  0 Output char. from AC
SKI pB9: if(FGI = 1) then (PC  PC + 1) Skip on input flag
SKO pB8: if(FGO = 1) then (PC  PC + 1) Skip on output flag
ION pB7: IEN  1 Interrupt enable on
IOF pB6: IEN  0 Interrupt enable off

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 Program Interrupt
• The process of communication just
described is referred to as Programmed
Control Transfer
• The computer keeps checking the flag bit,
and when it finds it set, it initiates an
information transform (this is sometimes
called Polling)
• This type of transfer is in-efficient due to
the difference of information flow rate
between the computer and the I/O device
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 Program Interrupt cont.

• The computer is wasting time while

checking the flag instead of doing some
other useful processing task
• An alternative to the programmed
controlled procedure is to let the external
device inform the computer when it is
ready for the transfer
• This type of transfer uses the interrupt
facility
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 Program Interrupt cont.

• While the computer is running a program,

it does not check the flags
• Instead:
– When a flag is set, the computer is
immediately interrupted from proceeding with
the current program

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 Program Interrupt cont.
– The computer stops what it is doing to take care
of the input or output transfer
– Then, it returns to the current program to continue
what it was doing before the interrupt
• The interrupt facility can be enabled or disabled
via a flip-flop called IEN
• The interrupt enable flip-flop IEN can be set and
cleared with two instructions (IOF, ION):
– IOF: IEN  0 (the computer cannot be
interrupted)
– ION: IEN  1 (the computer can be interrupted)
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 Program Interrupt cont.

• Another flip-flop (called the interrupt flip-

flop R) is used in the computer’s interrupt
facility to decide when to go through the
interrupt cycle
• FGI and FGO are different here compared
to the way they acted in an earlier
discussion!!
• So, the computer is either in an
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 Program Interrupt cont.

• The interrupt cycle is a hardware

implementation of a branch and save
return address operation (BSA)
• The return address available in PC is
stored in a specific location where it can
be found later when the program returns to
the instruction at which it was interrupted
• This location may be a processor register,
a memory stack, or a specific memory
location
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 Program Interrupt cont.

• For our computer, we choose the

memory location at address 0 as a place
for storing the return address
• Control then inserts address 1 into PC:
this means that the first instruction of the
interrupt service routine should be stored
in memory at address 1, or, the
programmer must store a branch
instruction that sends the control to an
interrupt service routine!!
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Program Interrupt cont.

R = Interrupt flip-flop

Instruction cycle =0 =1 Interrupt cycle

R

Fetch and decode Store return address

instructions in location 0
M[0]  PC

Execute =0
IEN
instructions
=1 Branch to location 1
PC  1
=1
FGI
=0
=1 IEN  0
FGO R 0
=0
R1

Flowchart for interrupt cycle

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 Program Interrupt cont.

• IEN, R  0: no more interruptions can

occur until the interrupt request from the
flag has been serviced
• The service routine must end with an
instruction that re-enables the interrupt
(IEN  1) and an instruction to return to
the instruction at which the interrupt
occurred
• The instruction that returns the control to
the original program is "indirect BUN 0"
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• Example: the computer is interrupted

during execution of the instruction at
address 255 Memory
Before interrupt After interrupt cycle
0 0 256
1 0 BUN 1120 PC = 1 0 BUN 1120

Main Main
255 Program 255 Program
PC = 256 256
1120 1120
I/O I/O
Program Program

1 BUN 0 1 BUN 0

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 Interrupt Cycle
• The fetch and decode phases of the
instruction cycle must be :
(Replace T0, T1, T2  R'T0, R'T1, R'T2
(fetch and decode phases occur at the
instruction cycle when R = 0)
• Interrupt Cycle:
– RT0: AR  0, TR  PC
– RT1: M[AR]  TR, PC  0
– RT2: PC  PC + 1, IEN  0, R  0, SC  0
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 R
T0 0 S0
+ S1
S2
T1

T2

write

Memory 7
Address

CLR
PC 2
INR

Register transfers
LD
TR 6
for the Interrupt
Cycle
AR 1
CLR

0 IEN
J

CLR SC R
0 J

Clock

bit common bus-16

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• Further Questions:
– How can the CPU recognize the device requesting
an interrupt?
– Since different devices are likely to require
different interrupt service routines, how can the
CPU obtain the starting address of the
appropriate routine in each case?
– Should any device be allowed to interrupt the CPU
while another interrupt is being serviced?
– How can the situation be handled when two or
more interrupt requests occur simultaneously?
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SC  0, IEN  0, R  0

(Instruction Cycle) =0 =1 (Interrupt Cycle)

R
R’T0 RT0
AR  PC AR  0, TR  PC
R’T1 RT1
IR  M[AR], PC  PC + 1 M[AR]  TR, PC  0
R’T2 RT2
AR  IR(0~11), I  IR(15) PC  PC + 1, IEN  0
D0...D7  Decode IR(12 ~ 14) R  0, SC  0

(Register or I/O) =1 =0 (Memory Ref)

D7
Fig 5-15
(I/O) =1 =0 (Register) (Indir) =1 =0 (Dir)
I I

D7IT3 D 7I’T3 D7’IT3 D 7’I’T3

Execute Execute AR  M[AR] Idle
I/O RR
Instruction Instruction
Execute MR D7’T4
Instruction

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