From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Encoding an ISA: Random Logic vs. Control Stores
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:50:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202111301850.1AUIovEG006894@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202111301530.1AUFU2eC015214@freefriends.org>
arnold@skeeve.com writes:
> Can someone please explain why it's called "random" logic? Discrete
> logic I understand (more or less), but I've not heard the term "random"
> used in this context before now.
Well, as a recovered random logic designer, I think that the name comes
from there being no particular structure to the logic. Many parts of
logic design are very regular, think memory. But that regularity doesn't
exist when, for example, decoding irregular instructions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-30 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-30 8:07 pbirkel
2021-11-30 15:19 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-30 15:30 ` arnold
2021-11-30 15:39 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-30 18:50 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2021-11-30 21:45 ` Humm
2021-11-30 23:07 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-30 23:18 ` Henry Bent
2021-12-01 5:00 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-12-01 6:27 ` pbirkel
2021-12-01 16:42 ` ron minnich
2021-12-01 17:08 ` Ron Natalie
2021-12-01 21:56 ` [TUHS] Encoding an ISA Warren Toomey
2021-12-01 13:59 [TUHS] Encoding an ISA: Random Logic vs. Control Stores Paul Ruizendaal
2021-12-01 14:55 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-01 20:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-12-01 21:14 ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-12-01 22:09 ` Jon Steinhart
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