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40. Barrel Shifter sketch and FPU addition notes

Here is a design for a barrel shifter using two states: first a set of 74LS153 dual 4-1 multiplexers, followed by a set of 74LS151 single 8-1 multiplexers. This operates on 32 bits and can shift by any number of bits in just these two stages of logic. Only 32 bits are considered, cause this barrel shifter is meant to be used in the floating point unit to normalise the fractional part.

Later I start to work out what is involved in floating point addition. A few worked examples are required...