ASynchronous, open source, Processor IP of the DLX Architecture. Goal: show feasibility to design and deliver asynchronous open IPs in portable, re-usable way. Information, downloads. Open source hardware.
Director of Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory, and co-author of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Professional information with some links.
Documents DLX implementation by Microsystems Prototyping Laboratory (MPL), MSU Engineering Research Center; used as design driver to help validate standard cell libraries.
VHDL model of processor; most instructions use 5 clock cycles to run, jumps use 3, floating point timing not fully accurate because fp instructions also take 5 cycles to run; description, download.
By Philip M. Sailer, David R. Kaeli; Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, ISBN 1558603719, 1st edition. Definitive work on DLX instructions. Information and abstract. ACM Portal.
Set of tools to build and simulate programs to run on DLX architecture, for exploring an operating system (DLXOS) in a simulated environment. Overview, architecture, OS, simulator, debugger, instructions.
Interactive visual pipeline simulator using DLX instruction set; operation of pipelined processor is easier to understand than trying to imagine operation from text descriptions; modified and extended from DLXsim. Documents, downloads.
Introductory tutorial with definitions, explanations, examples to show basic pipelining ideas; applet simulation lets users choose instructions to run, and see how pipeline works from direct experience.
Information on DLX processor simulator and compiler, DLXsim, interactive program, loads assembly programs and simulates operation of computer on them, single-stepping or continuous execution.
Program for MS Windows, an assembly interpreter for DLX assembly language; instructions, source code, downloads. By Javier Echaiz, National University of the South.
By John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson; Morgan Kaufmann, 2007, ISBN 9780123704900, 4th edition. Design in quantitative terms, in context of real running systems, not abstract formats; how technology changes in time, empirical constants needed in design. (2007)
