PLD/FPGA Workshop 1.5

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	Tue 25 Jun 2013 19:00	Hackerspace.gr
	Ends	Event Owner
	Tue 25 Jun 2013 21:00	User:Skmp

Switches! Lots of them!

we'll actually split into teams and all, so we'll really need the laptops this time around

slides are in github

Computer architecture

• ISA Design
  • Some stuff about typical ISA design
  • ALU
  • Branching
  • Registers/Load store/etc
• ISA Implementation
  • Pipeline description
• Memory interfaces
  • MMIO/MMR
• Hands on stuff !
  • Implement a simple assembler (hopefully we'll have some of it ready from the study work)
  • Implement flow control
  • Port the cpu to verilog
  • Extend the assembler for flow control
• Think together a custom, minimal SoC
  • We'll actually implement this later on :)

Check the code in https://github.com/pld-lessons/simple_cpu

For study

• Implement an assembler that accepts assembly in a nice, text format and outputs C code for it
• Modify tiny.cpp to read external binary files
• modify the assembler to generate binary files

Example assembly format

   //this is a commend and is ignored
   mov r0,1
   add r0,r1,r2
   add r0,r2 //this is a shorthand for add r0,r0,r2
   print r0

Also checkout The main page