FPGA Microprocessor

---- Design, Tool Chain and Application

Contents

• FPGA Processors
  
• FPGA Microprocessor Research Projects
  
• Commercial Soft Processors
  
• FPGA CPU Lists
• Forums
• Applications
• FPGA General Information
  
• FPGA Resources
• FPGA Design Companies
• Glossary
• VHDL Designs
• Architecture
  
• Instructions Sets
• MIPS
• Components
• Processor Design
• Processor Related Discussions from FPGA-FAQ
• News from Magazines
  
• Others
  

Selected FPGA Microprocessor Projects

• Bird Computer Gallery   Butterfly CPU
• Enoch Hwang   Digital Logic and Microprocessor Design
• Gray Research LLC
• RetroMicro FPGA CPU
• John's System 16 and Micro8
• MC8051 by Oregano Systems
  
• VHDL 8051
• PDP10 in FPGA
• Martin Schoeberl's Java Processor
• Building a RISC System in a FPGA
• Shengyu Shen  nnARM
• Bernd Paysan  b16 stack processor   4stack
  

Commercial Soft Processors

• Manik from NikTech    60 MH  4 stage pipeline, 16 * 32-bit regfile
  
• Nios II/f  from Altera    185MH  1850LE,  900ALM , 6 stage pipeline
  
• MicroBlaze from Xilinx
• XAP family from Cambridge Consultants
• DP8051 from Digital Core Design
• C68000, C8051  from  Cast Inc.
• Xtensa 32-Bit Microprocessor  from Tensilica
  

FPGA Microprocessor Lists and Open Circuits

• OpenCore
• FPGA CPU Links  from Gray Research, up to 2003
  
• Open Collector
• FPGAs and Open Design Circuits

FPGA Applications

• Image Processing
• Digital Video Camera Recorder
• Panasonic uses Altera EPM240G (240LE, 1.5$)
  

FPGA Resources

• FPGA Journal
• Programming Logic Design Line
  
• FPGA China
• FPGA4FUN

Forums

• FPGA-FAQ
  
• FPGA Microprocessor Forum
• Nios Forum
• China Nios II Forum
  

FPGA Design Companies

• Celoxica       --   Hardware design using Handel-C
  
• Implulse        --   Compile Standard C to FPGA
• XtremeData  --   FPGA coprocessor
  
• AMIS           --   FPGA to ASIC conversion
• Synplicity      --  FPGA synthesis tool provider, Tutorials
• LSI LOGIC  -- Amplify RapidChip
• Flying FPGA Computing -- Arithmetic IP,  FPGA board
• Digital Core Design -- processor IP, FPGA board
  

Instruction Sets

• Bschhabra's 8080/8085 Instruction List

Software Tools

• Compilers
  
• GNU Tool Chain
• Free Compilers
  
• C--  interface between high-level compilers and retargetable, optimizing code generators
• PCCTS
  
• John's PCCTS bases C++ Parser
• MLRISC -- retargetable and optimizing compiler back ends
• Writing Kernel in C++
• Simulators
• SimOS

• Free EDA Tools

• GEDA , Free EDA tools for Unix
• CGEN, the Cpu tools GENerator

Processor Related Discussions from FPGA-FAQ

• small superscalar design ?
• New Free FPGA CPU
  
• FPGA multiprocessors
• C++/Java generators vs. synthesizers   2000 by Jan Gray
  
• hard FPGA CPU cores do not moot soft cores 2000 by Jan Gray
  
• JVM processor 2000 by Martin Schoeberl,  a list of Java processors on FPGA
• 8-way MIMD multiprocessor in an XCV50E 2000 by Jan Gray
  
• High level synthesis will never work well :) 2001 by Don Husby
• 16-bit FGPA CPU core (commercial) 2002 by lenman
• PowerPC soft-core?

News from Magazines

• Lexra's MIPS core runs on Altera FPGA,  EETimes, 1998
  

Glossary

• ALUT  -- Adaptive Look-Up Table (ALUT) is the cell in Stratix^® II devices
• ALM   -- Two ALUTs comprise a single Adaptive Logic Module (ALM)
• DMIPS -- Dhrystone MIPS/MHz.

Archiecture Components

• Cache

Others

• SoC Central
  
• ELF Format
• IC Design Flow
• Emacs quick reference
• EDA Links
• Programming Language Courses
  

Development Kits

• WiqiTech