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VHDL Design of Educational, Modern and Open-Architecture CPU

STRAKA, M. VHDL Design of Educational, Modern and Open-Architecture CPU. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2007 Volume 4. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2007. p. 457-461. ISBN: 978-80-214-3410-3.
Czech title
Návrh pokročilé architektury procesoru ve VHDL
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Straka Martin, Ing., Ph.D.
Keywords

VHDL, pipeline, CPU, cache, prediction unit

Abstract

The paper deals with design of a modern, open-architecture CPU utilizable for educational purposes. It is expected that use of the CPU in the educational process will greatly contribute to deeper understanding of key-topics taught in the area of modern architectures. Our CPU is based on the Von-Neumann architecture, equipped with a five-stage pipeline, cache memory unit and simple branch prediction unit. The architecture is designed in VHDL including set of 16 instructions. Rich variety of educative tasks can be performed by means of the CPU. It has been both successfully simulated in ModelSim and synthesized in Precision RTL Synthesis in order to be implemented in FPGA and utilized in practice as a real working CPU.

Published
2007
Pages
457–461
Proceedings
Proceedings of the 13th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2007 Volume 4
Conference
Student EEICT 2007, Brno, CZ
ISBN
978-80-214-3410-3
Publisher
Brno University of Technology
Place
Brno
BibTeX
@inproceedings{BUT28605,
  author="Martin {Straka}",
  title="VHDL Design of Educational, Modern and Open-Architecture CPU",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 13th Conference STUDENT EEICT 2007 Volume 4",
  year="2007",
  pages="457--461",
  publisher="Brno University of Technology",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-3410-3"
}
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