Designing a modern processor is a very complex task. Writing the entire design using a hardware description language (like Verilog) is time consuming and difficult to verify. There exists a split architecture/microarchitecture description technique, in which, the description of any hardware can be divided into two orthogonal descriptions: (a) an architectural contract between the user and the implementation, and (b) a microarchitecture which describes the implementation of the architecture. The main aim of this thesis is to build realistic processors using this technique. We have designed an in-order and an
out-of-order superscalar processor using the split-description compiler. The backend of this compiler is another contribution of this thesis. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3302 |
| Date | 17 June 2011 |
| Creators | Bansal, Ankit Sajjan Kumar |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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