how many bit are require to make ALU

Mike odom · Nov 22, 2013

ronsimpson said:
lol yes
Some days programming bites.

Yes it does. I usually go to lunch with one of your programmers on Thursdays, but yesterday he was having one of those kind of days, and couldn't get away.

WTP Pepper · Nov 29, 2013

The AMD2900 series were popular in the 80's. They are known as bit slice ALUs. Just cascade them to give you the required number of bits. They were a ***** to program IIRC but their datasheets may give you a clue and at the time were very fast.

ronsimpson · Nov 29, 2013

WTP Pepper said:
The AMD2900 series were popular in the 80's. They are known as bit slice ALUs. Just cascade them to give you the required number of bits. They were a ***** to program IIRC but their datasheets may give you a clue and at the time were very fast.

Real fast. We put heat sinks on the parts and over clock them. I think we had 8 bit and 12 bit versions.

WTP Pepper · Nov 30, 2013

ronsimpson said:
Real fast. We put heat sinks on the parts and over clock them. I think we had 8 bit and 12 bit versions.

Yep Happy days. No C++,C# or VB compilers. Those when you had to know the inner workings of adders etc to get by.

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