Chapter 8: Central Processing Unit

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CENTRAL PROCESSING
UNIT
• Introduction
• General Register Organization
• Stack Organization
• Instruction Formats
• Addressing Modes
• Data Transfer and Manipulation
• Program Control
• Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)

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 MAJOR COMPONENTS OF CPU
Storage Components:
Registers
Flip-flops

Execution (Processing) Components:

Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU):
Arithmetic calculations, Logical computations, Shifts/Rotates

Transfer Components:
Bus

Control Components:
Control Unit
Register
File ALU

Control Unit
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GENERAL REGISTER ORGANIZATION

Clock Input

R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
R6
R7
Load
(7 lines)
SELA { MUX MUX } SELB
3x8 A bus B bus
decoder

SELD
OPR ALU

Output

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 OPERATION OF CONTROL UNIT
The control unit directs the information flow through ALU by:
- Selecting various Components in the system
- Selecting the Function of ALU

Example: R1 <- R2 + R3
[1] MUX A selector (SELA): BUS A  R2
[2] MUX B selector (SELB): BUS B  R3
[3] ALU operation selector (OPR): ALU to ADD
[4] Decoder destination selector (SELD): R1  Out Bus
3 3 3 5
Control Word SELA SELB SELD OPR

Encoding of register selection fields

Binary
Code SELA SELB SELD
000 Input Input None
001 R1 R1 R1
010 R2 R2 R2
011 R3 R3 R3
100 R4 R4 R4
101 R5 R5 R5
110 R6 R6 R6
111 R7 R7 R7
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 Control

ALU CONTROL
Encoding of ALU operations OPR
Select Operation Symbol
00000 Transfer A TSFA
00001 Increment A INCA
00010 ADD A + B ADD
00101 Subtract A - B SUB
00110 Decrement A DECA
01000 AND A and B AND
01010 OR A and B OR
01100 XOR A and B XOR
01110 Complement A COMA
10000 Shift right A SHRA
11000 Shift left A SHLA

Examples of ALU Microoperations

Symbolic Designation
Microoperation SELA SELB SELD OPR Control Word
R1  R2 - R3 R2 R3 R1 SUB 010 011 001 00101
R4  R4  R5 R4 R5 R4 OR 100 101 100 01010
R6  R6 + 1 R6 - R6 INCA 110 000 110 00001
R7  R1 R1 - R7 TSFA 001 000 111 00000
Output  R2 R2 - None TSFA 010 000 000 00000
Output  Input Input - None TSFA 000 000 000 00000
R4  shl R4 R4 - R4 SHLA 100 000 100 11000
R5  0 R5 R5 R5 XOR 101 101 101 01100
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 REGISTER STACK ORGANIZATION
Stack
- Very useful feature for nested subroutines, nested loops control
- Also efficient for arithmetic expression evaluation
- Storage which can be accessed in LIFO
- Pointer: SP
- Only PUSH and POP operations are applicable
stack Address

Register Stack Flags 63

FULL EMPTY

Stack pointer 4
SP C 3
B 2
A 1
Push, Pop operations 0
DR
/* Initially, SP = 0, EMPTY = 1, FULL = 0 */

PUSH POP
SP  SP + 1 DR  M[SP]
M[SP]  DR SP  SP - 1
If (SP = 0) then (FULL  1) If (SP = 0) then (EMPTY  1)
EMPTY  0 FULL  0 7
 MEMORY STACK ORGANIZATION
1000
Program
Memory with Program, Data, PC (instructions)
and Stack Segments
Data
AR (operands)

SP 3000
stack
3997
3998
3999
4000
- A portion of memory is used as a stack with a 4001
processor register as a stack pointer DR

- PUSH: SP  SP - 1
M[SP]  DR
- POP: DR  M[SP]
SP  SP + 1

- Most computers do not provide hardware to check

stack overflow (full stack) or underflow(empty stack)
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 REVERSE POLISH NOTATION
Arithmetic Expressions: A + B
A+B Infix notation
+AB Prefix or Polish notation
AB+ Postfix or reverse Polish notation
- The reverse Polish notation is very suitable for stack
manipulation

Evaluation of Arithmetic Expressions

Any arithmetic expression can be expressed in parenthesis-free
Polish notation, including reverse Polish notation

(3 * 4) + (5 * 6)  34*56*+

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4 5 5 30
3 3 12 12 12 12 42
3 4 * 5 6 * +

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 Instruction Format

INSTRUCTION FORMAT
Instruction Fields
OP-code field - specifies the operation to be performed
Address field - designates memory address(s) or a processor register(s)
Mode field - specifies the way the operand or the
effective address is determined
The number of address fields in the instruction format
depends on the internal organization of CPU

- The three most common CPU organizations:

Single accumulator organization:
ADD X /* AC  AC + M[X] */
General register organization:
ADD R1, R2, R3 /* R1  R2 + R3 */
ADD R1, R2 /* R1  R1 + R2 */
MOV R1, R2 /* R1  R2 */
ADD R1, X /* R1  R1 + M[X] */
Stack organization:
PUSH X /* TOS  M[X] */
ADD
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 THREE, and TWO-ADDRESS
INSTRUCTIONS
Three-Address Instructions:

Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :
ADD R1, A, B /* R1  M[A] + M[B] */
ADD R2, C, D /* R2  M[C] + M[D] */
MUL X, R1, R2 /* M[X]  R1 * R2 */

- Results in short programs

- Instruction becomes long (many bits)

Two-Address Instructions:
Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :

MOV R1, A /* R1  M[A] */

ADD R1, B /* R1  R1 + M[B] */
MOV R2, C /* R2  M[C] */
ADD R2, D /* R2  R2 + M[D] */
MUL R1, R2 /* R1  R1 * R2 */
MOV X, R1 /* M[X]  R1 */
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ONE, and ZERO-ADDRESS INSTRUCTIONS
One-Address Instructions:
- Use an implied AC register for all data manipulation
- Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :
LOAD A /* AC  M[A] */
ADD B /* AC  AC + M[B] */
STORE T /* M[T]  AC */
LOAD C /* AC  M[C] */
ADD D /* AC  AC + M[D] */
MUL T /* AC  AC * M[T] */
STORE X /* M[X]  AC */
Zero-Address Instructions:
- Can be found in a stack-organized computer
- Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :
PUSH A /* TOS  A */
PUSH B /* TOS  B */
ADD /* TOS  (A + B) */
PUSH C /* TOS  C */
PUSH D /* TOS  D */
ADD /* TOS  (C + D) */
MUL /* TOS  (C + D) * (A + B) */
POP X /* M[X]  TOS */
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 ADDRESSING MODES

Addressing Modes:

* Specifies a rule for interpreting or modifying the

address field of the instruction (before the operand
is actually referenced)

* Variety of addressing modes

- to give programming flexibility to the user

- to use the bits in the address field of the
instruction efficiently

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 TYPES OF ADDRESSING MODES
Implied Mode
Address of the operands are specified implicitly
in the definition of the instruction
- No need to specify address in the instruction
- EA = AC, or EA = Stack[SP], EA: Effective Address.

Immediate Mode
Instead of specifying the address of the operand,
operand itself is specified
- No need to specify address in the instruction
- However, operand itself needs to be specified
- Sometimes, require more bits than the address
- Fast to acquire an operand

Register Mode
Address specified in the instruction is the register address
- Designated operand need to be in a register
- Shorter address than the memory address
- Saving address field in the instruction
- Faster to acquire an operand than the memory addressing
- EA = IR(R) (IR(R): Register field of IR)
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 TYPES OF ADDRESSING MODES
Register Indirect Mode
Instruction specifies a register which contains
the memory address of the operand
- Saving instruction bits since register address
is shorter than the memory address
- Slower to acquire an operand than both the
register addressing or memory addressing
- EA = [IR(R)] ([x]: Content of x)

Auto-increment or Auto-decrement features:

Same as the Register Indirect, but:
- When the address in the register is used to access memory, the
value in the register is incremented or decremented by 1 (after or
before the execution of the instruction)

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 TYPES OF ADDRESSING
MODES
Direct Address Mode
Instruction specifies the memory address which
can be used directly to the physical memory
- Faster than the other memory addressing modes
- Too many bits are needed to specify the address
for a large physical memory space
- EA = IR(address), (IR(address): address field of IR)

Indirect Addressing Mode

The address field of an instruction specifies the address of a memory
location that contains the address of the operand
- When the abbreviated address is used, large physical memory can
be addressed with a relatively small number of bits
- Slow to acquire an operand because of an additional memory
access
- EA = M[IR(address)]

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 TYPES OF ADDRESSING
MODES
Relative Addressing Modes
The Address fields of an instruction specifies the part of the address
(abbreviated address) which can be used along with a
designated register to calculate the address of the operand

PC Relative Addressing Mode(R = PC)

- EA = PC + IR(address)

- Address field of the instruction is short

- Large physical memory can be accessed with a small number of
address bits

Indexed Addressing Mode

XR: Index Register:
- EA = XR + IR(address)
Base Register Addressing Mode
BAR: Base Address Register:
- EA = BAR + IR(address)
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ADDRESSING MODES - EXAMPLES
Address Memory
200 Load to AC Mode
PC = 200 201 Address = 500
202 Next instruction
R1 = 400

399 450
XR = 100
400 700

AC
500 800

600 900
Addressing Effective Content
Mode Address of AC
Direct address 500 /* AC  (500) */ 800 702 325
Immediate operand - /* AC  500 */ 500
Indirect address 800 /* AC  ((500)) */ 300
Relative address 702 /* AC  (PC+500) */ 325 800 300
Indexed address 600 /* AC  (XR+500) */ 900
Register - /* AC  R1 */ 400
Register indirect 400 /* AC  (R1) */ 700
Autoincrement 400 /* AC  (R1)+ */ 700
Autodecrement 399 /* AC  -(R) */ 450

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 DATA TRANSFER INSTRUCTIONS
Typical Data Transfer Instructions
Name Mnemonic
Load LD
Store ST
Move MOV
Exchange XCH
Input IN
Output OUT
Push PUSH
Pop POP
Data Transfer Instructions with Different Addressing Modes
Assembly
Mode Convention Register Transfer
Direct address LD ADR AC M[ADR]
Indirect address LD @ADR AC  M[M[ADR]]
Relative address LD $ADR AC  M[PC + ADR]
Immediate operand LD #NBR AC  NBR
Index addressing LD ADR(X) AC  M[ADR + XR]
Register LD R1 AC  R1
Register indirect LD (R1) AC  M[R1]
Autoincrement LD (R1)+ AC  M[R1], R1  R1 + 1
Autodecrement LD -(R1) R1  R1 - 1, AC  M[R1]
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 DATA MANIPULATION INSTRUCTIONS
Three Basic Types: Arithmetic instructions
Logical and bit manipulation instructions
Shift instructions
Arithmetic Instructions
Name Mnemonic
Increment INC
Decrement DEC
Add ADD
Subtract SUB
Multiply MUL
Divide DIV
Add with Carry ADDC
Subtract with Borrow SUBB
Negate(2’s Complement) NEG

Logical and Bit Manipulation Instructions Shift Instructions

Name Mnemonic Name Mnemonic
Clear CLR Logical shift right SHR
Complement COM Logical shift left SHL
AND AND Arithmetic shift right SHRA
OR OR Arithmetic shift left SHLA
Exclusive-OR XOR Rotate right ROR
Clear carry CLRC Rotate left ROL
Set carry SETC Rotate right thru carry RORC
Complement carry COMC Rotate left thru carry ROLC
Enable interrupt EI
Disable interrupt DI 20
 PROGRAM CONTROL INSTRUCTIONS
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In-Line Sequencing
(Next instruction is fetched from the
PC next adjacent location in the memory)

Address from other source; Current Instruction, Stack, etc

Branch, Conditional Branch, Subroutine, etc
Program Control Instructions
Name Mnemonic
Branch BR
Jump JMP
Skip SKP
Call CALL * CMP and TST instructions do not retain their
Return RTN results of operations(- and AND, respectively).
Compare(by - ) CMP They only set or clear certain Flags.
Test (by AND) TST

Status Flag Circuit A B

8 8
c7
8-bit ALU
c8
F7 - F0
V Z S C
F7
Check for 8
zero output
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CONDITIONAL BRANCH INSTRUCTIONS
Mnemonic Branch condition Tested condition
BZ Branch if zero Z=1
BNZ Branch if not zero Z=0
BC Branch if carry C=1
BNC Branch if no carry C=0
BP Branch if plus S=0
BM Branch if minus S=1
BV Branch if overflow V=1
BNV Branch if no overflow V=0
Unsigned compare conditions (A - B)
BHI Branch if higher A>B
BHE Branch if higher or equal AB
BLO Branch if lower A<B
BLOE Branch if lower or equal AB
BE Branch if equal A=B
BNE Branch if not equal AB
Signed compare conditions (A - B)
BGT Branch if greater than A>B
BGE Branch if greater or equal AB
BLT Branch if less than A<B
BLE Branch if less or equal AB
BE Branch if equal A=B
BNE Branch if not equal AB

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 SUBROUTINE CALL AND RETURN
SUBROUTINE CALL Call subroutine
Jump to subroutine
Branch to subroutine
Branch and save return address
Two Most Important Operations are Implied;

* Branch to the beginning of the Subroutine

- Same as the Branch or Conditional Branch

* Save the Return Address to get the address

of the location in the Calling Program upon
exit from the Subroutine
- Locations for storing Return Address: CALL
SP  SP - 1
• Fixed Location in the subroutine(Memory) M[SP]  PC
• Fixed Location in memory PC  EA
• In a processor Register
• In a memory stack RTN
- most efficient way PC  M[SP]
SP  SP + 1
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 PROGRAM
Types of Interrupts:
INTERRUPT
External interrupts
External Interrupts initiated from the outside of CPU and Memory
- I/O Device -> Data transfer request or Data transfer complete
- Timing Device -> Timeout
- Power Failure

Internal interrupts (traps)

Internal Interrupts are caused by the currently running program
- Register, Stack Overflow
- Divide by zero
- OP-code Violation
- Protection Violation

Software Interrupts
Both External and Internal Interrupts are initiated by the computer Hardware.
Software Interrupts are initiated by texecuting an instruction.
- Supervisor Call -> Switching from a user mode to the supervisor mode
-> Allows to execute a certain class of operations
which are not allowed in the user mode

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 INTERRUPT PROCEDURE
Interrupt Procedure and Subroutine Call
- The interrupt is usually initiated by an internal or
an external signal rather than from the execution of
an instruction (except for the software interrupt)

- The address of the interrupt service program is

determined by the hardware rather than from the
address field of an instruction

- An interrupt procedure usually stores all the

information necessary to define the state of CPU
rather than storing only the PC.

The state of the CPU is determined from;

Content of the PC
Content of all processor registers
Content of status bits
Many ways of saving the CPU state depending on the CPU architectures

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 RISC: REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET
Historical Background COMPUTERS
IBM System/360, 1964
- The real beginning of modern computer architecture
- Distinction between Architecture and Implementation
- Architecture: The abstract structure of a computer
seen by an assembly-language programmer

Compiler -program
High-Level Instruction
Language Hardware
Set
Architecture Implementation

Continuing growth in semiconductor memory and microprogramming

-> A much richer and complicated instruction sets
=> CISC(Complex Instruction Set Computer)
- Arguments advanced at that time
Richer instruction sets would simplify compilers
Richer instruction sets would alleviate the software crisis
- move as much functions to the hardware as possible
- close Semantic Gap between machine language
and the high-level language
Richer instruction sets would improve the architecture quality
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 COMPLEX INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTERS:
CISC
High Performance General Purpose Instructions
Characteristics of CISC:
1. A large number of instructions (from 100-250 usually)
2. Some instructions that performs a certain tasks are not used
frequently.
3. Many addressing modes are used (5 to 20)
4. Variable length instruction format.
5. Instructions that manipulate operands in memory.

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 PHYLOSOPHY OF RISC
Reduce the semantic gap between
machine instruction and microinstruction
1-Cycle instruction
Most of the instructions complete their execution
in 1 CPU clock cycle - like a microoperation
* Functions of the instruction (contrast to CISC)
- Very simple functions
- Very simple instruction format
- Similar to microinstructions
=> No need for microprogrammed control
* Register-Register Instructions
- Avoid memory reference instructions except
Load and Store instructions
- Most of the operands can be found in the
registers instead of main memory
=> Shorter instructions
=> Uniform instruction cycle
=> Requirement of large number of registers
* Employ instruction pipeline
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 CHARACTERISTICS OF RISC
Common RISC Characteristics
- Operations are register-to-register, with only LOAD and
STORE accessing memory
- The operations and addressing modes are reduced
Instruction formats are simple

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 CHARACTERISTICS OF RISC
RISC Characteristics
- Relatively few instructions
- Relatively few addressing modes
- Memory access limited to load and store instructions
- All operations done within the registers of the CPU
- Fixed-length, easily decoded instruction format
- Single-cycle instruction format
- Hardwired rather than microprogrammed control
More RISC Characteristics
-A relatively large numbers of registers in the processor unit.
-Efficient instruction pipeline
-Compiler support: provides efficient translation of high-level language
programs into machine language programs.
Advantages of RISC
- VLSI Realization
- Computing Speed
- Design Costs and Reliability
- High Level Language Support

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