Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip
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Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip

Ken Shirriff writes: The 74181 ALU (arithmetic/logic unit) chip powered many of the minicomputers of the 1970s: it provided fast 4-bit arithmetic and logic functions, and could be combined to handle larger words, making it a key part of many CPUs. Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip -...

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Reverse-engineering the ALU of 8008 microprocessor
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Reverse-engineering the ALU of 8008 microprocessor

Ken Shirriff has written an article on reverse engineering the ALU of the 8008 microprocessor: A computer’s arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the heart of the processor, performing arithmetic and logic operations on data. If you’ve studied digital logic, you’ve probably learned...

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Inside the 74181 ALU chip: die photos and reverse engineering
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Inside the 74181 ALU chip: die photos and reverse engineering

A detailed die photos and reverse engineering of the 74181 ALU chip by Ken Shirriff: What’s inside a TTL chip? To find out, I opened up a 74181 ALU chip, took high-resolution die photos, and reverse-engineered the chip.1 Inside I found several types of gates, implemented with...

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Inside the ALU of the first ARM microprocessor
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Inside the ALU of the first ARM microprocessor

Dave @ daveshacks.blogspot.co.uk takes a look inside the first ARM microprocessor and explains it's design. With that in mind I embarked on my own attempt to reverse-engineer parts of the armv1. Some background knowledge of the processor's architecture is helpful, and googling for...

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