UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs

Daněk, Martin; Kafka, Leoš; Kohout, Lukáš; Sýkora, Jaroslav; Bartosiński, Roman

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2012-10-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781461424093

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2410-9

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 222