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Registers: Not the Cash Kind

A project log for DDL4-CPU

A Modular 4-Bit CPU Design

daves-dev-labDave's Dev Lab 05/26/2018 at 04:270 Comments

The assembly of the Registers Module is complete! The Registers Module started off as the ALU Module as part of the 4-Bit Architecture Experiments project. The ALU portion has been removed, leaving the A, B and Accumulator registers. Another 4-bit latch has been added to handle the ALU flags. Only two flags are currently being stored, but I was already using the 74LVC173D 4-bit latches for the A, B, and Accumulator registers, and it makes sense that in the future I might want to have additional flags. Each register has LEDs to indicate the contents and a LED to indicate when the register is enabled.

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