Digital Systems Design - Project

Design Specifications

1. Simple RISC ISA v.2.3
2. Pipeline implementation of the Simple RISC Processor v.1.0
3. Superscalar implementation of the Simple RISC Processor v1.0
4. Floating-point Execution Unit v.1.0

Assignments

First semester

1. Sequential processor golden model
2. Step by step design of the pipelined Simple RISC Processor
3. Step by step design of the superscalar Simple RISC Processor - A (Parallel execution)
4. Step by step design of the superscalar Simple RISC Processor - B (Register renaming)

Second semester

1. Step by step design of the superscalar Simple RISC Processor - C (Instruction window)
2. Floating-point Execution Unit design and verification

Resources

• Introduction to Verilog
• Vivado Design Suite Evaluation and WebPACK (Vivado HL WebPACK is free)

Announcements

Digilent Design Contest 13th Edition