Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs

by Donnamaie E. White

Revamped from HTML 1.0 July, 2001 On-Line as an HTML eBook since 1995

Original Cover, Inside Cover

This book was created while I was the Director of Customer Education at Advanced Micro Devices, 1978-1981. For a current bio and vitae, see www.Donnamaie.com

Original Hardcover Book Copyright - 1981

The hardcover book is out of print.

The Am2900 Family of devices no longer exist as products of AMD.

Where to find it now:

AMD no longer produces the Am2910 but it lives on in emulators, FPGAs, PLAs and code. In the current listings, I found it as a classroom exercise in Design Systhesis, in another form as a megafunction (IP) and in a design completed as a lab exercise (complete with the Am2901). It was just "too cool to lose" as far as the design community is concerned.

As an IP:

An IP product - Intellectual Property - or "megafunction" - that allows the functionality of a controller to be "dropped into" a much larger ASIC.

Product List: http://www.altera.com/products/ip/ampp/cast/cast.html#products

http://www.celeritous.com/public/cores.pdf

The Am2910 in Verilog

They have been coded in VHDL, coded in Verilog and emulated by several companies.