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7 – Sequential Logic Examples

© 1996 Gaetano Borriello

Data-path and control

• Digital hardware systems = data-path + control

  • datapath: registers, counters, combinational functional units (e.g., ALU), communication (e.g., busses)
  • control: FSM generating sequences of control signals that instructs datapath what to do next

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"puppet"

"puppeteer who pulls the strings"

control

data-path

status info and inputs

control signal outputs

state

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