Microprocessor Design/Resources

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Microprocessor Design

Contents 1 Further Reading 1.1 Related Wikibooks 1.2 Wikipedia Articles 1.3 Wikiversity Courses 1.4 Commons Image Categories 1.5 External Links 1.6 Books

[edit] Further Reading

[edit] Related Wikibooks

• Chip Design Made Easy
• MIPS Assembly
• SPARC Assembly
• Programmable Logic
• Semiconductors
• Digital Circuits
• Parallel Computing and Computer Clusters
• Floating Point
• Embedded Control Systems Design/Processors
• Embedded Systems/Microprocessor Architectures
• Floating Point/Floating Point Hardware

[edit] Wikipedia Articles

Wikipedia has related information at CPU design

• Wikipedia:Microprocessor
• Wikipedia:CPU design
• Wikipedia:Instruction set
• Apollo Guidance Computer

[edit] Wikiversity Courses

• Wikiversity:Computer_Architecture_Lab

[edit] Commons Image Categories

• Commons:Category:Microprocessors
• Commons:Category:Microcontrollers

[edit] External Links

• "homebrew CPU".
• Knowledge and Concepts of VLSI Chip Design and Development
• "Great moments in microprocessor history" by W. Warner 2004
• wiki:AlternativeMicroprocessorDesign
• wiki:DoMicroprocessorsLoveCee
• Daniel J. Sorin has some good notes online for classes he's taught: "ECE 152: Introduction to Computer Architecture" and "ECE 252 / CPS 220: Advanced Computer Architecture I".
• Jacob Nelson has some information online about his microprocessor designs: "An FPGA-based Custom Computer" and "The uToad Proof of Concept", both reminiscent of the PDP-10.
• OpenCores has many open-hardware FPGA and CPLD designs under development, including dozens of microprocessors. These include entirely new processors such as "JOP: a Java Optimized Processor", "ZPU - the worlds smallest 32 bit CPU with GCC toolchain", the "OpenRISC 1000", "MCPU ... fits into a 32 Macrocell CPLD". These also include processors designed to be software compatible with ("clean-room re-implementations of") several older proprietary processors -- MIPS, ARM, x86, AVR, PIC, 68HC11, 68000, Alpha, etc.
• VHDL Source Code for Simple 8-bit CPU
• "Microprocessor Architectures" has a "Java based simulator of a pipelined processor. ... The Java code is written in a style to simplify the process of converting the processor into a ... a FPGA implementation."
• "CPU Design HOW-TO" by Alavoor Vasudevan 2002
• The Advanced Processor Technologies Group at Manchester has microprocessor design and synthesis tools you can download and use.

[edit] Books

• Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 3^rd Edition, Morgan Kaufman, 2005. ISBN 1558606041
• ... should we list the other design books recommended by John Doran ? ...