Open Directory - Computers: Hardware: Components: Processors: DLX
See also: - ASynchronous, open source, Processor IP of the DLX Architecture. Goal: show feasibility to design and deliver asynchronous open IPs in portable, re-usable way. Information, downloads. Open source hardware. - Photo with descriptions. - Documents DLX implementation by Microsystems Prototyping Laboratory (MPL), MSU Engineering Research Center; used as design driver to help validate standard cell libraries. - Documents: getting started, instruction set summary and description, simulator manual. - Tables of instructions, categorized, as PDF slides. By Guy Even, Tel Aviv University. [PDF] - VHDL model of processor; most instructions use 5 clock cycles to run, jumps use 3, floating point timing not fully accurate because fp instructions also take 5 cycles to run; description, download. - Director of Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory, and co-author of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Professional information with some links. - Introductory tutorial with definitions, explanations, examples to show basic pipelining ideas; applet simulation lets users choose instructions to run, and see how pipeline works from direct experience. - DLXOS information needed for programming, from introductory course on OSs. - Information on DLX processor simulator and compiler, DLXsim, interactive program, loads assembly programs and simulates operation of computer on them, single-stepping or continuous execution. - Master's Thesis: Design and Evaluation of a RISC Processor with a Tomasulo Scheduler. Uses DLX. HTML, PS, GZ, PDF. - Diagram, description, download. - By Philip M. Sailer, David R. Kaeli; Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, ISBN 1558603719, 1st edition. Definitive work on DLX instructions. Information and abstract. ACM Portal. - Class overview with tables (instruction format, set) and diagrams (timing), some other information. By Ethan Miller, University of Maryland. - PDF slides, mostly code. [PDF] - Encyclopedia article with links to many related topics. - Program for MS Windows, an assembly interpreter for DLX assembly language; instructions, source code, downloads. By Javier Echaiz, National University of the South. - Book review, explains that book is a classic and standard work in its field. Ars Technica. (September 01, 1999)