The PDP-8 Class Project : Resoling An Old Machine

Tom Almy

ISBN 10: 1790487978 / ISBN 13: 9781790487974

Editore: Independently Published Nov 2018, 2018

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• Titolo: The PDP-8 Class Project : Resoling An Old Machine
• Editore: Independently Published Nov 2018
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1790487978
• ISBN 13: 9781790487974
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 152 A x 4 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 4 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 113 grammi

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104 Electrical Engineering students in 18 teams over 7 years designed computers as part of a Digital Systems course the author taught. The goal was to load and then execute a program to calculate and display prime numbers on their team's computer. This is the true story of how the course was conceived, how the computers were designed, and what lessons were learned. The book describes the computer architecture (which was based on that of the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8) and the student implementation in VHDL. Full source code is available. Knowledge of digital design is necessary to fully appreciate this book.