CS 250A: Introduction to Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
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CDA 3102
Long Assignment # 4
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Submission Details: You can insert your answer directly in this Word Document. You can
also insert the figure directly in this document where needed. Finally, Submit the PDF of your solution
in Canvas by the deadline.
Honor Code: Honor Code This assignment should be completed individually to maximize learning.
It is important that you adhere to the Course Policies, particularly the section on Programming
Assignments. Also this assignment should follow FIU Honor Code Policy. Authorized help for all
assignments are limited to the lab handouts, the LAs, and the Professor. Copying work from another
student or the Internet is an honor code violation as is giving help to another student, which will
esult in a zero on the assignment and possibly further sanctions. Your code may be subject to
evaluation by MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity), which is used to detect inappropriate
similarities among programs.
Tools required: I encourage you to use LogiSim software. You may draw circuits into LogiSim
and insert the circuit diagram in your report as a figure.
• You can download it from here: http:
www.cburch.com/logisim/download.html
• Here is a video tutorial of Logisim (you can find many similar videos yourself online):
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Goal: In this practice, you are going to use the basic building blocks we have learned in digital
logic to put together a basic design of a MIPS microprocessor for a simple subset of the instruction
set. These instructions illustrate most aspects of the processor:
Memory reference: lw, sw
Arithmetic/logical: add, sub, and, or, slt
Control transfer: beq, j
Combinational Elements: Remember that you can use gates (AND, OR, XOR, NOT), Adders,
ALUs, and Multiplexors as we have studied so far and as are diagrammed on the attached sheet
called combinational elements. When looking at a circuit diagram for a combinational element we
think of electricity (imagine it flowing like water) flowing from the left side of the diagram to the
ight side. Each wire, represented by a single line, represents and input with electricity flowing in
at a high level (1) or a low-level (0).
http:
www.cburch.com/logisim/download.html
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Sequential Elements: We will also need to use something we discussed
iefly earlier called a
sequential element. A sequential element is one that introduces a formal sequencing into a circuit
and only changes on the clock edge. The typical sequential element that we are interested in is a
egister. A register has an input D, and an output Q. There is always a signal on D and the goal is
to have that signal reflected on Q constantly; allowing Q to change only when we are looking for
that change.
Consider the above diagram on sequential elements. Notice in the right figure how the value
eflected on the Q output only changes on the rising edge of the clock (i.e. when the clock value
goes from 0 to 1).
Note that the D register shown this diagram is a one-bit register. When we are dealing with the
processor design we will be using registers that are the size of a word in the machine we are
designing a data path for. MIPS has 32-bit words so most of our registers and hence our “buses”
or lines will be 32-bits. We can just draw a long box with a line coming in and a line coming out
to represent a register of more than one bit.
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We show a line is more than one bit or one value wide by drawing a diagonal line through it and
writing the “width” of the bus or line above the diagonal like this:
This diagram represents 32-bits or a 32-bit wide bus (32 lines) coming into a device.
Now we have the tools to be able to draw a picture representing the register called the Program
Counter addressing instruction memory and sending out an instruction to the processor.
P.1) [5 pt] In the above diagram, add diagonal lines to indicate the size of each of the lines
coming into and going out of each logic element.
To continue in this exercise we will need to have one more concept down. This is the idea that we
may want more than one “input” in general to a particular logic component. For example in the
above diagram we may want to sometimes get a new program counter that is just the next
instruction (hence the add 4 to the cu
ent program counter) or if the instruction is a
anch or
jump we will want to get some information from the instruction to change to the new program
counter. When we want two different inputs, we need to use a multiplexor to change between the
two rather than have two outputs (old PC and instruction) both going into the same input (new
PC).
The diagram below shows an “overview” of the whole processor design we will be modifying.
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P.2) [10 pt] Redo the diagram inserting multiplexors where needed.
Now that you have a new diagram with multiplexors, you will be focusing on elaborating on each
section of the overview diagram to account for different parts of the execution of the machine for
different instructions. To make sure that you understand the overview diagram, answer the
following questions with respect to it.
P.3) [10 pt] What bits of the instruction will be sent to the second adder in the circuit
computing the new PC – why?
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P.4) [10 pt] What bits of the instruction will be going into each of the Register # inputs of
the Register file in the center of the machine?
P.5) [10 pt] For what kind of instruction will the output of the data memory be going into
the input of the register file? Explain.
P.6) [5 pt] Now add to your overview picture, an oval for “control” showing lines coming
in and lines going out to control the multiplexors. Label each line going into a multiplexor
with a descriptive word to describe what control we want selecting the multiplexor input.
Now for each set of instructions you will be making a list of what the instruction type needs to do
and draw basic block diagram of only the components relevant to these particular instructions.
Instruction Fetch/Branch Instructions: Refine the PC generation part of the block diagram
and explain what needs to happen for a beq instruction and a jump instruction.
P.7) [10] Now, for “Instruction Fetch” list necessary actions and draw a revised circuit
diagram for the components required for instruction fetch.
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R-Format Instructions: The R-format instructions are the add, sub, and, or, slt.
P.8) [15 pt] Now for “R-Format instructions”, list necessary actions and draw a revised
circuit diagram for the components required in the execution of an R-format
instruction.
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Load/Store Instructions: The load/store instructions are lw and sw.
P.9) [15 pt] Now for “Load/Store” list necessary actions and draw a revised circuit
diagram for the components required in the execution of a load/store instruction.
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P.10) [20 pt] Now incorporate your smaller circuit diagrams into a larger overview diagram
with all of the pieces together. Note that you can just label the control lines coming out of an
oval appropriately labeled to indicate the signal you want generated by the control.
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