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UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs 2013th Edition
Author(s): Martin Daněk (Author), Leoš Kafka (Author), Lukáš Kohout (Author), Jaroslav Sýkora (Author), Roman Bartosiński (Author)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: October 21, 2012
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1461424097
- ISBN-13: 9781461424093
Book Description
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.
