Project Requirements.md

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION & ARCHITECTURE LAB (2016-17)

TERM PROJECT

Take any real life computing machine like washing machine, microwave, smart watch etc.

PART A: ISA DESIGN

Design an ISA for an 8-bit machine which can handle all operations (atleast ten) of your machine. Your project report should contain the following:

1. Introduction (reference to the machine, description of functions, any other information which is required to design the ISA).
2. Specify the following:
   • Memory model
   • Registers
   • Instruction format
   • Instruction design
   • Data types
   • Addressing modes
   • Instruction types
   • Flow of control handling

PART B: ASSEMBLER DESIGN

1. Write a C program which will convert the mnemonic code of your machine (as defined in the above ISA) to its equivalent binary machine code.
2. Test your assembler for a specific scenario.

PART C: MACHINE SIMULATION

1. Write a C program to implement the designed ISA as a computing machine which takes binary machine instructions as an input and produces the final output. a. Display status of registers, ALU control signals and flag register for each instruction execution.

PART D: MICROARCHITECTURE DESIGN

1. Design the microarchitecture for your machine. Draw and specify control signals, bus architecture and ALU design.