Hackaday

The Inner Workings Of The Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit

In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the ...
TechRepublic

Design, Analysis and Simulation of High Performance Low Power 8-Bit ALU at Gate and Layout Levels

An Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) is a digital circuit that performs arithmetic and logic operations. In this work, the demand is to design an 8-bit ALU and perform analysis at gate and layout levels ...
EDN

An 8-bit ALU made entirely out of NAND Gates

Arithmetic Logic Units are combinations of digital logic gates that performs arithmetic and logical operations on binary numbers. For this project, an 8-bit ALU was made entirely of NAND gates only. A ...
Hackaday

Ripple Carry Adder

Increment and decrement. They sound like simple functions. But even the simplest functions can get quite complex in a microprocessor design. Ken Shirriff has written up a great blog post about his ...