Title :
SIxD: A Configurable Application-Specific SISD/SIMD Microprocessor Soft-Core
Author :
Sonmez, Nehir ; Yurdakul, Arda
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Bogazici Univ., Istanbul
Abstract :
In this study, an FPGA-based, configurable, application-specific, SIMD-capable, non-pipelined RISC soft processor core that operates on variable-width fixed-point data is presented. The flexible SISD core with general-purpose instructions fits on small FPGAs, but can be easily configured to incorporate application-specific instructions and to operate in SIMD mode when higher performance is required
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; microprocessor chips; parallel processing; reduced instruction set computing; FPGA; RISC soft processor core; SIMD microprocessor; SIxD; application-specific instructions; application-specific soft processor; configurable soft processor; flexible SISD core; general-purpose instructions; variable-width fixed-point data; Chip scale packaging; Data engineering; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; MPEG 7 Standard; Microprocessors; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Reduced instruction set computing; Registers;
Conference_Titel :
System-on-Chip, 2006. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tampere
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0621-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0622-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSOC.2006.321990
