Implementing a transputer for FPGA in less than 800 lines of code

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By utilizing Synchronous Message Exchange (SME) for hardware design, we see that going from a hardware schematic to an implementation becomes a much shorter process. This in turn shifts the focus to the architectural details of the implementation. This is shown by constructing an implementation of the Transputer in SME. This implementation has been made in less than 800 lines of code within the timeframe of ∼4 months, where the majority of the time spent has been on the Transputer architecture. The resulting implementation is suboptimal compared to similar projects. However, since no optimizations have been made, reaching a more reasonable resource consumption and clockrate should be attainable within a few months.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCommunicating Process Architectures 2017 and 2018, WoTUG-39 and WoTUG-40 - Proceedings of CPA 2017 (WoTUG-39) and Proceedings of CPA 2018 (WoTUG-40)
EditorsJan Baekgaard Pedersen, Kevin Chalmers, Jan F. Broenink, Brian Vinter, Kevin Vella, Peter H. Welch, Marc L. Smith, Kenneth Skovhede
Number of pages20
PublisherIMIA and IOS Press
Publication date2019
Pages559-578
ISBN (Electronic)9781614999485
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event39th WoTUG Conference on Communicating Process Architectures, CPA 2017 and 40th WoTUG Conference on Communicating Process Architectures, CPA 2018 - Dresden, Germany
Duration: 19 Aug 201822 Aug 2018

Conference

Conference39th WoTUG Conference on Communicating Process Architectures, CPA 2017 and 40th WoTUG Conference on Communicating Process Architectures, CPA 2018
LandGermany
ByDresden
Periode19/08/201822/08/2018
SeriesConcurrent Systems Engineering Series
Volume70
ISSN1383-7575

    Research areas

  • CSP, FPGA, Hardware, Occam, Processor architecture, SME, Transputer

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