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The design of a user-programmable digital interface (Recent Results)

Published: 17 January 1976 Publication History
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    An interface for digital computers and peripherals is described in this paper. The design process is traced, beginning with the definition of the problem environment, and the derivation of primitive interfacing functions. The functions are associated with four functional classes; data input/output, data storage, data manipulation, and control. Interface capabilities range from control over the synchronization of input and output pulse data to control over the data word widths acceptable. System limitations include technical, timing, and synchronization problems. The interface is modular, generalized, and user programmable. The control is contained in two levels: a user microprogram, and a read only nanoprogram.

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    cover image ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
    ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News  Volume 4, Issue 4
    January 1976
    210 pages
    ISSN:0163-5964
    DOI:10.1145/633617
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    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

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    Published: 17 January 1976
    Published in SIGARCH Volume 4, Issue 4

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