UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1489995706 ISBN 13: 9781489995704

Publisher: Springer, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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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.

• Describes and documents a working SPARC v8, with fine-grain multithreading and fast context switch;
• Provides VHDL sources for the described processor;
• Describes a latency-tolerant framework for coupling hardware accelerators to microthreaded processor pipelines;
• Includes programming by example in the micro-threaded assembly language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1489995706
• ISBN 13: 9781489995704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240