• DocumentCode
    2810279
  • Title

    EP32 - a 32-bit Foth Micorprocessor

  • Author

    Hjrtland, Edvin ; Chen, Li

  • Author_Institution
    South Dakota Sch. of Mines & Technol., Rapid City
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    22-26 April 2007
  • Firstpage
    518
  • Lastpage
    521
  • Abstract
    This paper introduces a design of a 32-bit Forth microprocessor - EP32. It is a stack based processor, well suited for the Forth programming language. The instruction set includes 35 RISC-like instructions. The EP32 processor has two stacks: the data stack and the return stack which are 256 levels deep. The 32-bit Forth processor is designed in VHDL, and synthesized with a 0.18 mum standard CMOS library. The processor will be synthesized with a radiation-hard-by-design digital library in the future for space applications.
  • Keywords
    CMOS logic circuits; hardware description languages; logic design; microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; CMOS; EP32; Forth microprocessor; RISC-like instruction; VHDL; stack based processor; word length 32 bit; CMOS process; Cities and towns; Design engineering; Embedded system; Engines; Microprocessors; Paper technology; Reduced instruction set computing; Registers; Software libraries;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. CCECE 2007. Canadian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC
  • ISSN
    0840-7789
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1020-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0840-7789
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCECE.2007.135
  • Filename
    4232794