Circuitos Digitales IICircuitos Digitales II

The General Computer Architecture

The CPU Control unitSemana No.9Semana No.9

Semestre 2008-2Semestre 2008-2

Prof. Gustavo PatiñoProf. Gustavo Patiñogpatino@udea.edu.co

Prof. Eugenio DuqueProf. Eugenio Duqueeaduque@udea.edu.co

Departamento de Ingeniería ElectrónicaDepartamento de Ingeniería Electrónica

Facultad de IngenieríaFacultad de Ingeniería

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The Central Processor Unit (CPU)

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The CPU Control Unit

Having “designed” the ALU or datapath so that it can perform the necessary instructions, we now have to do the same thing for the control unit, which decodes instructions and provides direction to the CPU.

The MIPS control unit decodes the six bits on either end of the 32-bit instruction word, that is, the op code and function code* fields, to determine each instruction sequence.

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Functionality of Control Unit

The control unit determines ALU functions in each instruction and selects operands for the ALU.

The operation code (the left six bits of the instruction) determines the type of operation and in some cases (such as jump instructions) the actual instruction itself.

In the case of register-register instructions, the function code determines the instruction (for example, in the R/R instruction above, the function code 0x 20 means “add”).

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Functionality of Control Unit (…cont)

The control unit is a collection of decoders and multiplexers.

The decoded instruction fields tell The ALU what function to

perform, What operands to use.

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Completing ALU Design

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Current Architecture

The ALU control uses instruction bits 0-5 to obtain information about the ALU operation in register-to- register instructions.

Note in the following diagram that some of the decoding is done in the register block, which has the decoding mechanism that identifies source and destination registers in load/store and register/register operations.

The ALU control also has input control lines from the operation code decoder which decodes bits 26-31, and which will be shown later.

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ALU Design with ALU Control Design shown

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ALU Control Block

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Single-Cycle ALU Design with Full Control Block

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Stages on the MIPS processor

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Op Code Control Block Signal Identifier

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Function OpCode Control Signals

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OpCode Control Block Circuitry

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Instruction Disposition Showing Destination Units

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Data/Control Signal Flow Examples The following diagrams illustrate the flow of control

signals and data in some example MIPS instructions in the single cycle implementation.

The “single cycle” implementation is just a stepping stone to the final MIPS design, but this simpler example has all the features of the more complex final design in terms of data routing and the way in which the control signals determine the specific operation for each given instruction.

Note the data flow in these instructions.

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Start of R-Type Instruction

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Next Step of R-Type Instruction

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Third Step of R-Type Instruction

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Completion of R-Type Instruction

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Load Instruction

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Branch Instruction

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Jump Instruction Circuitry Added

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Jump Instruction Flow

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Drawbacks of the Single-Cycle Implementation

We have now completed “design” of the basic MIPS CPU. Although a good basic design, it has a serious drawback:

The processor is designed so that all instructions complete in one clock cycle.

While this assures that there is sufficient time to complete any instruction, it also means that one clock period must be long enough to accommodate the longest and most complicated instruction.

Thus, ALL instructions take as long as the longest instruction.

Since many (most!) instructions in the MIPS architecture take less time to execute than the longest instructions (which are usually the lw memory reference instructions), this means that we are slowing execution of the CPU a large part of the time to accommodate instructions that occur substantially less frequently.

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Comparative Instruction Timing