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What Is A Microprogrammed Control Unit

The document outlines the functions and types of Control Units in computer architecture, highlighting the initiation of microoperations through control signals. It distinguishes between Hardwired Control, which is fast but inflexible, and Microprogrammed Control, which allows for easier modifications at the cost of speed. Additionally, it describes the concept of a Control Word that represents the state of control variables during microoperations.

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What Is A Microprogrammed Control Unit

The document outlines the functions and types of Control Units in computer architecture, highlighting the initiation of microoperations through control signals. It distinguishes between Hardwired Control, which is fast but inflexible, and Microprogrammed Control, which allows for easier modifications at the cost of speed. Additionally, it describes the concept of a Control Word that represents the state of control variables during microoperations.

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Control Unit

Initiate
sequences of microoperations. The no. of micro
operations in the systems are finite.
»The control function that specifies a microoperation is a binary variable.
When it is in one state the corresponding microoperation is executed. The
opposite state does not change the state of registers.
»Control signal (that specify microoperations) in a bus-organized system
are
groups of bits that select the paths in multiplexers, decoders, and arithmetic logic units

Two major types of Control Unit
»Hardwired Control:
The control logic is implemented with gates, Flip Flops, decoders, and other digital circuits
+ Fast operation, - Wiring change (if the design has to be modified)

»Microprogrammed Control:
The control information is stored in a control memory, and the control memory is
programmed to initiate the required sequence of microoperations.
+ Any required change can be done by updating the microprogram in control memory, -
Slow operation

Control Word: control unit initiates a series of
microoperations. During any time certain microoperations are
initiated while others are idle.
The control variables at any given time can be represented by a
string of 1’s and 0’s is called control word.

Microprogrammed Control Unit
The programming approach is used to implement a microprogrammed
control unit. A program made up of microinstructions is used to carry out a
series of micro-operations. The control unit’s control memory stores a
microprogram composed of microinstructions. The creation of a set of
control signals is dependent on the execution of a microinstruction.

The block diagram of this type of organization is shown below:

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