Program Counter Logic Circuit
Asynchronous or ripple counters.
Program counter logic circuit. Counters are of two types. I ve been focused on the main datapath but the control logic needs some love. The program counter is an internal register that works through of logic gates that points to the next next instruction in whatever program is stored in the 8051 be it flash eeprom etc executable memory. Counter is a sequential circuit.
A digital circuit which is used for a counting pulses is known counter. From the user s point of view pc is a user accessible register that can be read as operand only as the srcx operand and written as a destination the value is incremented at every cycle to point to the next instruction so the value is visible both to the. The down counter holds the number of repetitions of a repeat sequence that is prescribed by the program. A program counter circuit is composed of two kinds of registers a down counter an up counter a selector and a logic circuit.
Counter is the widest application of flip flops. Asynchronous or ripple counters. So let s talk about the pc or program counter register. In digital logic and computing a counter is a device which stores and sometimes displays the number of times a particular event or process has occurred often in relationship to a clock the most common type is a sequential digital logic circuit with an input line called the clock and multiple output lines.
The values on the output lines represent a number in the binary or bcd number system. Counters are used in digital electronics for counting purpose they can count specific event happening in the circuit.