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    Cover of Bit-slice design

    Bit-slice design

    Donnamaie E. White · 1979

    Electronics & Hardware
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    2recommend
    3mentions
    2people
    2017–2023years
    100% recommend

    Mentions per year

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    What Hacker News says

    1. kjs3Jan 2023
      Look for Bit Slice Design by Donnamaie E. White or the "Mick & Brick" bitslice book. Both take you through simple but non-trivial microcode use cases.
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    2. pkayeApr 2020
      Here are some old books on bit-slice processors. Very interesting reading.

      Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs by Donnamaie E. White

      Bit-Slice Microprocessor Design by John Mick and James Brick

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    3. pkayeJun 2017
      Anyone wanting to learn more about Microcode in general, I found two old books that has some information:

      * Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs, Donnamaie White

      * Bit-Slice Microprocessor Design, Mick and Brick

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