KE11-F Floating Instruction Set

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The KE11-F Floating Instruction Set‏‎ is the optional floating point unit for the KD11-A CPU of the PDP-11/40. It implements the PDP-11 FIS floating point, not the full FP11 floating point.

Physically, it consists of a single quad board, the M7239, which plugs into a pre-wired slot in the CPU backplane.

It requires the installation of the KE11-E Extended Instruction Set, which allows the microcode of the basic CPU to be extended.

The KE11-F includes its own microcode ROM, which provides an additional 8 bits width of microcode (to control the data paths and registers on the M7239), but it also uses microcode stored on the KE11-E, to control registers and datapaths elsewhere.

Further reading

  • "KE11-E and KE11-F Instruction Set Options Manual", EK-KE11E-TM-002