This article presents a set of hardware experiments in the area of computer architecture. They combine their practical aspects with a set of simulation exercises.
We propose a series of practical applications including both asynchronous VME/synchronous ISA buses and parallelism. The system on which experiments are carried out is an 80 × 86 CPU-based prototype.
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