<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Architecture of the CPU</title><link>/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/architecture-of-the-cpu</link><description>Now that I have completed the ALU I can move onto the data path and registers.Here are some of my constraints; no tri-state bufferskeep the number of registers to a minimum (less then five, an 8 bit register uses 64 transistors)use the ALU to in...</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Architecture of the CPU</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/architecture-of-the-cpu</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:23:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:2c6c7e87-c0ef-46c7-b17e-a6d83d325b5f</guid><dc:creator>DAB</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice update Tim.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not surprised at the oscillations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each wire has inductance and capacitance, so you can get self oscillations easily, so you might need to do some filtering along some of your traces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DAB&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=2225&amp;AppID=293&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Architecture of the CPU</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/architecture-of-the-cpu</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 01:30:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:2c6c7e87-c0ef-46c7-b17e-a6d83d325b5f</guid><dc:creator>clem57</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;You are doing well. Take a look at &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://www.pctechguide.com/cpu-architecture/principles-of-cpu-architecture-logic-gates-mosfets-and-voltage" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank" title="https://www.pctechguide.com/cpu-architecture/principles-of-cpu-architecture-logic-gates-mosfets-and-voltage"&gt;https://www.pctechguide.com/cpu-architecture/principles-of-cpu-architecture-logic-gates-mosfets-and-voltage&lt;/a&gt; which says a 4 bit 40004 from Intel had 2,300 transistors of Mosfet type. As to register they had 16 4 bit or 8 8 bit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clem&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=2225&amp;AppID=293&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>