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Lab 7.4: Towards Memory

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Arithmetic circuits alone do not make a computer. A computer needs memory1, places to store and retrieve information, if it is to have data2 that can be operated on. And, memory must itself be describable in terms of our logical primitives3. The exercises below demonstrates how a small piece of memory might be built in Logg-O.

1pp. 255, 262
2pp. 89, 149, 260, 310
3pp. 160, 238–241, 311

  1. Figure 7.16 in your text shows a latch4 circuit. Use Logg-O to build your own latch circuit. Test it out to see that it performs as described in text. Then, save your circuit as file "latch.dat".

  2. Figure 7.18 shows how a latch (the "black box" just left to the center of the diagram) can be connected to other Logg-O built-ins to produce a one-bit memory cell. Extend your latch circuit to implement this memory.

  3. Once you are convinced that your memory circuit performs as it should, save it in a file named "memory.dat".
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