PC Magazine

address decoder

A circuit that converts an address into the electrical signals required to retrieve the data from a memory cell, disk sector, cartridge library or other memory or storage device. THIS DEFINITION IS ...
Design-Reuse

Targeting SoC address decoder faults using functional patterns

Even though you have thoroughly verified your SoC design during the development cycle, sometimes critical faults during manufacturing can lead to failure in the field, one of the most serious of which ...
Hackaday

Reverse Engineering Programmable Logic

Despite what the cool kids are doing over on Hackaday Projects, the vast majority of vintage computers used some form of programmable logic for memory control, address decoding, and all that other ...
BBC

The fetch-decode-execute cycle

The fetch-decode-execute cycle is followed by a processor to process an instruction. The cycle consists of several stages. Depending on the type of instruction, additional steps may be taken: If the ...