RISC Processor design

[beta0]

reference to the book:computer organization and design: h/w interface

and appendix A of computer architecture: a quantitative approach

 

[archillios]

consider about some ARM-like open core project, such as nnARM.
ARM is a simple RISC core, easy to understand, lots of doc support.

 

[modelsim62c]

consider about some ARM-like open core project, such as nnARM.

ARM isn't open-source -- it's owned by the company ARM Ltd. You can download and use nnARM for personal-use and academic study. But you would be very foolish to build commercial project around an unauthorized project like nnARM.

There are several open-source MIPS-clones that are good for study. (Probably not so good for actual commercial use, since they are slow, big, and not competive with today's embedded CPUs.)

 

[ubna]

The book computer architecture by hennesy and patterson makes fair amount of deal with risc processors..