Digital systems: hardware organization and design (3rd ed.)
Digital systems: hardware organization and design (3rd ed.)
Computer architecture and organization; (2nd ed.)
Computer architecture and organization; (2nd ed.)
Computer system architecture (3rd ed.)
Computer system architecture (3rd ed.)
An improved conditional branching scheme for a single instruction computer architecture
ACM SIGFORTH Newsletter
An improved conditional branching scheme for a single instruction computer architecture
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
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A single processing computer system using only half-adder circuits is described. In addition, it is shown that only a single hard-wired instruction is needed in the control unit to obtain a complete [1] instruction set for this general purpose computer. Such a system has several advantages. First it is intrinsically a RISC machine-in fact the "ultimate RISC" machine. Second, because only a single type of logic element is employed the entire computer system can be easily realized on a single, highly integrated chip. Finally, due to the homogeneous nature of the computer's logic elements, the computer has possible implementations as an optical or chemical machine. This in turn suggests possible paradigms for neural computing and artificial intelligence. This approach was inspired by a paper by van der Poel [5] in which a single instruction is used to furnish a complete set [1] of general purpose instructions.