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Digital Electronics: Principles, Devices and Applications

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578 <strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Electronics</strong>Register-1Register-2Register-3Register-nMUX-AMUX-BDecoderALUFigure 14.13Register-based processor architecture.14.3.3.3 Stack-based ArchitectureIn stack-based architecture, both oper<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> the operation to be performed are stored on the stack,which could be configured around dedicated registers or a special portion of RAM. The result ofoperation is placed back on the stack. Figure 14.14 shows typical block schematic arrangement of thistype of architecture.Stack TopStackALUFigure 14.14Stack-based processor architecture.

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