• DocumentCode
    1714963
  • 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
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System-on-Chip, 2006. International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Tampere
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0621-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0622-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSOC.2006.321990
  • Filename
    4116478