UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs
1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2012
XVIII, 222 pages
978-1-4614-2410-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book describes a specification, microarchitecture, VHDL implementation and evaluation of a SPARC v8 CPU with fine-grain multi-threading, called micro-threading. The CPU, named UTLEON3, is an alternative platform for exploring CPU multi-threading that is compatible with the industry-standard GRLIB package. The processor microarchitecture was designed to map in an efficient way the data-flow scheme on a classical von Neumann pipelined processing used in common processors, while retaining full binary compatibility with existing legacy programs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVIII, 222 p.
File size
8,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4614-2410-9 (9781461424109)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-2410-9
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Martin Danek | Leos Kafka | Lukás Kohout
UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs
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10/2012
1st Edition
Springer
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Content
Introduction.- The LEON3 Processor.- Microthreaded Extensions.- The Basic UTLEON3 Architecture.- UTLEON3 Programming by Example.- UTLEON3 Implementation Details.- Execution Effieciency of the Microthread Pipeline.- Hardware Families of Threads.- I/O and Interrupt Handling in the Microthread Mode.- The IU3 Pipeline.- Excerpts from the LEON3 Instruction Set.- Relevant LEON3 Registers and Address Space Identifiers.- Scheduler Example.- Used Resources.- Tutorial.
