Processors - Explanations and Flow Charts
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Many people, including myself, aren't very skilled with electrical engineering. I do understand logic gates and resources for them are abundant. Processors on the other hand, do not have many such resources(powder toy-wise). I would love to see someone highlight parts of devest8a's processor, create descriptions of their functions, and build flow charts that show the flow of electricity between logic gates(e.g. labeled like "INPUT->OR->NOT" to help understand which logic gates are being used), and show how each component connects to others.
P.S. I hate to sound needy or lazy, but I just think it would help many people to begin developing advanced electronics for powder toy. -
Basically you need to think in IF VALUE THEN ACTION. Using 4 input pins followed by 4 not gates and 8 and gates you have 16 possible outputs.
Possible inputs
0000
0001
0010
0011
0100
0101
0110
0111
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111
and so each input puts a voltage through a unique output. You then use JK flip flops to redirect the input pins to another 'sorter' and then attach the appropriate logic, but using the second 'sorter' input as data. You now have command and data.
I don't think I have explained myself terribly clearly, I do have a diagram of the 'sorter' component of the processor in a easy to read schematic, as I am designing my own processor.
I will attach later
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Thank you, also the combinations were not necessary it is a 4 bit binary processor, I think that the average person can figure out that there are different combinations, and I'm a programmer, I understand fairly well how computers work. I somewhat understand how opcodes can be handled(or well atleast one way). I would really prefer to see a flow chart so that I can see what each part is doing, cause it isn't easy to just look at it and understand.
