cloverpop / armv8_pipeline

An Arm V8 processor with pipelining made via the instructions of the ARM-Edition book written by David A. Patterson & John L. Hennesey

#Author:
Jordi Jaspers

#Date of initial commit:
28/12/2018

#ARMv8_Pipeline
An Arm V8 processor with pipelining made via the instructions of the ARM-Edition book written by David A. Patterson & John L. Hennesey

#What I learned

• Advanced verilog & VHDL programming
• How parallel processing work instead of the regular sequential processing
• Workings of a processor (Also see Tamarac on my github)
• Understanding and importance of pipelining with error detection

#DISCLAIMER:
All the code that is copied or used from other sources will be mentioned in the reference section of this file.

#TODO list:
The pipelining processor is made out of 9 modules or 5 big parts and ofcourse a testfile.
==> Fetch, Decode, Execute, Data-Acces, Write-Back.

1. RegisterFile --> done! (gebruikt van de single_cycle)
2. ProgramCounter --> done! (is verwerkt in de pipelining zelf. geen apparte file meer.)
3. SignExtend --> done! (gebruikt van de single_cycle)
4. ALU --> done! (gebruikt van de single_cycle)
5. ALUControl --> done! (gebruikt van de single_cycle)
6. DataMemory --> done! (gebruikt van de single_cycle)
7. InstructionMem --> done! (gebruikt van de single_cycle)
8. Piplining --> done!
9. Control --> done! (gebruikt van de single_cycle)
10. Test file? --> done!

#References:
StackOverflow: (Bible for every coder)
https://www.StackOverflow.com/

Verilog fundamentals:
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp09/cse141L/Slides/01-Verilog1.pdf

LEGV8 16bit component example:
https://github.com/surajmehta95/LEGV8-Processor