The Simple-As-Possible (SAP) computer is a simplified computer architecture designed for educational purposes and described in the book Digital Computer Electronics by Albert Paul …

The SAP-1 computer is the first stage in this evolution and contains the basic necessities for a functional computer. Its primary purpose is to develop a basic understanding of how a …

The book builds what it calls the Simple-as-Possible (SAP) Computer. It starts with the incredibly simple SAP-1, adds some features to get the SAP-2, and then adds a few more to reach the …

SAP-1 instruction cycle: 3 clock cycles to fetch and decode phase, 3 clock cycles to execute the first three states are: address increment memory address increment memory controller has a 6 …

Our first approximation will be called “Simple-As-Possible-1”(SAP-1) II. 1. There are some things that are common to a lot of computers (most, actually) and we’ll start with a couple of these. …

The SAP-1 design contains the basic necessities for a functional Microprocessor. Its primary purpose is to develop a basic understanding of how a microprocessor works, interacts with …

SAP-1 Processor Architecture ¶ A simple 8-bit micro-processor using mostly discrete logic chips. This project is mostly based on the 8-bit Breadboard computer by Ben Eater

Figure 1: Block diagram of SAP-1 with data entries. Beside each signal, there is how its name is referred into the VHDL code. As shown in Figure 2, the computer has eight inputs: the …

The SAP (Simple-As-Possible)-1 Computer is an 8-bit computer capable of performing simple operations such as add and subtract two numbers. The SAP-1 employs a processing unit …

The document describes the Simple-As-Possible Computer (SAP-1), one of the earliest educational computers.