COMPUTER CONTROL UNIT DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING COERCED OPERATIONS

    公开(公告)号:DE3072139D1

    公开(公告)日:1989-02-02

    申请号:DE3072139

    申请日:1980-08-12

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: In executing and controlling internal data flow for a particular program, it is often necessary to delay execution of an instruction by the insertion of an appropriate number of wait cycles. Thus, it may be necessary to interrupt instruction execution, for example, to insert a given number of wait cycles for channel access to common storage of the data processing system, for reloading a data or instruction buffer, or for a like situation. In such cases, the control unit has to ignore the particular instruction awaiting execution and execute another forced operation instead. An appropriate code is provided for a NO OPERATION instruction, say all bits zero. When a forced operation is to be executed, this code can be generated with fewer logic means at the output of the instruction register. As a result, there are no control signals active at the output of the decoder. The signals indicating forced operations have to be considered by the decoder only if a control signal is to be generated. If the control signals need be grouped for physical reasons, it is possible to determine which of these signals are a function of forced operations. This will negate the need to otherwise distribute these control signals throughout the decoder, thereby reducing and simplifying the wiring required.

    CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR ERROR DETECTION IN DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:CA955686A

    公开(公告)日:1974-10-01

    申请号:CA145363

    申请日:1972-06-22

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: In a data processing system, a first processing unit is connected to several other processing units by one transfer bus each for the two directions of transmission, a circuit arrangement for error detection being associated with the transfer lines. The first unit comprises a check character generator generating a parity check character both for the information to be transferred from the first processing unit to the further processing units and from the further processing units to the first processing unit. The transfer lines of both directions are provided with a common transfer path, by means of which the parity check characters generated by the check character generator are transferred from the first unit to the further units. Each of the further units comprises a check circuit connected to the two transfer buses and the check character transfer path and checking the correctness of the transferred information for both directions of transmission.

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    公开(公告)号:IT1162778B

    公开(公告)日:1987-04-01

    申请号:IT2585079

    申请日:1979-09-20

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: An LSI integrated semiconductor circuit system comprised of a plurality of interconnected minimum replaceable units. The system and each minimum replaceable unit fully conforms to the Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) Rules. [Level Sensitive Scan Design Rules are fully disclosed and defined in each of the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,783,254, 3,761,695, 3,784,907 and in the publication "A Logic Design Structure For LSI Testability" by E. B. Eichelberger and T. W. Williams, 14th Design Automation Conference Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society, June 20-22, 1977, pages 462-467, New Orleans, La.]. Each of the minimum replaceable units includes a shift register segment having more than two shift register stages. Each register stage of each shift register segment of each minimum replaceable unit includes a master flip-flop (latch) and a slave flip-flop (latch). Connection means is provided for connecting the shift register segments of said minimum replaceable units into a single shift register. Additional controllable circuit means including test combinational circuit means is provided for setting a predetermined pattern in only said first two stages of each shift register segment of said minimum replaceable units. The additional circuit means facilitates and is utilized in testing the circuit integrity (stuck faults and continuity) of each minimum replaceable unit.

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    公开(公告)号:BR8404462A

    公开(公告)日:1985-09-03

    申请号:BR8404462

    申请日:1984-09-05

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: In the processing of instructions in data processing systems it is not always possible to execute these instructions without interruption since particular situations, in the following called events can occur which necessitate a short interruption for executing the operations caused by such events before continuing the interrupted instruction processing. Such repetition however is only possible when the contents of the operation register containing the instruction is frozen during the interruption. Such a situation requires two actions: the first is the execution of a forced operation to resolve the event. The second action is a repetition of the instruction and execution phase of the interrupted instruction.

    DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM
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    公开(公告)号:CA1035051A

    公开(公告)日:1978-07-18

    申请号:CA232796

    申请日:1975-07-31

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Input/output registers integrated with logic and arithmetic circuits are combined externally of a processor nucleus having only storage registers, instruction decode logic, timing circuitry and arithmetic and logic unit for executing microinstructions whereby the use of the input/output registers is determined by microprogram code and by time control to either selectively execute all adapter and interface communication and control functions for input and output devices or to selectively be switched into the data flow of the processor nucleus.

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