Processor design with elementary instruction set

The aim of this module is to assemble elementary functions (combinatorial and sequential) to create a programmable processor with an elementary instruction set. The architecture designed will be integrated on an FPGA prototyping board.
The processor to be designed is a general-purpose 8-bit processor. It is capable of executing 4 types of instructions. The processor is based on an 8-bit accumulator register called ACCU. Each instruction is coded on 8 bits. Two bits to encode the type of operation (code.op) and 6 bits to encode the operand or the operand address in memory, depending on the type of instruction.

EN102, EN103, EN201, EN202

During the first sessions, the typical simplified architecture of general-purpose processors is detailed. This is followed by table-top work leading to the definition of a hierarchical block diagram of the processor.
The remaining sessions are devoted to processor design using the VHDL language in Xilinx's Vivado environment.

Digital Electronics

1 course support and 1 practical support.