After studying the content of these projects, you will be able to:

• Explain the concept of a datapath or operational unit.

• Explain the need and the functionality of the control unit based on an FSM.

• Design complex circuits or dedicated processors based on the datapath and control unit.

• Design CLK generators to obtain from a high frequency quartz crystal the many CLK signals required for the project under construction.

• Explain how to design frequency dividers.

• Explain how to square pulsed signals using T_FF.

• List a number of applications, subsystems and complex circuits that can be designed using the techniques and strategies described in this P8 section.

• Explain why a microprocessor is a programmable dedicated processor. This is a specific system with flexible datapath resources and enough memory registers, and a control unit where CC1 and CC2 are based on memory, allowing the execution of a different state diagram per assembler language instruction.