By Alvin Pon

This coursework is the solution for Computer Architecture - Assignment 2 by Professor Bruce Batchelor - here
Please note: These are my solutions to the following problems. They are not necessarily correct!

Demonstrations of the following instructions for a simple computer:

Instruction Fetch
[AR] <-- Q, where Q is some predefined constant.: Also: How Q is generated and where it is stored.
Direct Addition
[AR] = [AR]*16 (not using multiplication or repeated addition)
Indirect Addition

Skip the next instruction if [AR] is greater than Q,: where Q is some predefined constant.; Also: How Q is generated and where it is stored.
Jump to (goto) the address specified by the contents of the program counter

How the hardware system could be enlarged in order to provide the following facilities:
(ix) Interrupt handling, capable of servicing a total of eight sources
(x) Direct memory access to a video digitiser
(xi) Co-processor, to accelerate floating point arithmetic

References:
Computer Architecture and Communications (Second edition) - Neil Willis - Blackwell Scientific Publications - ISBN 0-632-03075-5
Computer Hardware, System Software, and Architecture - Tom Luce - McGraw-Hill International Editions (Computer Science Series) - ISBN 0-07-100204-9

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