G'day all,

I'm looking to build a 16bit register board with some ALU capabilities on it so I can achieve some parallel operations, and I'm tossing up between just using latches like the 74xxx574 IC or using 4 bit presettable binary counters (something like the 74xx163/74xxx193) where I can latch the data but also INC and DEC if the operation requires it...

thoughts anyone?

Sid

Sounds like it might be quite a clever idea! Useful if you don't already have enough function in an ALU, or if you want to do inc/dec in parallel with other things.

It seams quite logical to do more operations within the Registers to enable high throughput. I should have a design done in the next few months. Will share some of my ideas here.