One of the more famous of these devices is the 74181, a cascadable 4-bit arithmetic logic unit, or ALU. An ALU is the heart of a microprocessor, performing its operations. The 74181 appeared in ...
After all, the basic structure of a shader unit is nothing more than an arithmetic logic unit, with some registers to store data, another unit to load and store said data, and something to manage ...
The work builds upon [Dave]’s earlier work on the Mega-One-8-One, a recreation of the 74181 Arithmetic Logic Unit for educational purposes. If you’re learning about computing in a bare-metal ...