IMPLEMENTATION OF SIMPLESCALAR PORTABLE INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE (PISA) ON FPGA

This report describes the current progress of final year project entitled Implementation of
SimpleScalar Portable Instruction Set Architecture (PISA) on FPGA. The objectives of
this study are to learn computer system architecture, to sharpen skill in programming and
debugging a program and to complete study in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
Problem statements will explain the reasons behind of this study was conducted. Firstly,
there are few microprocessors in the market currently can be reconfigurable. Secondly,
there is a need to design a microprocessor which can be used freely for academic
purposes. Thus, in this study, we will focus on the designing of a microprocessor that is
reconfigurable, easily understood and freely available for academicals purposes.
Methodology will describe way on how this project will be carried out. There are three
main steps to be taken which are: 1) Studying the SimpleScalar instruction set
architecture; 2) Programming and simulating by using VHDL programming language 3)
Implementing the SimpleScalar architecture in VHDL and FPGA.
In the Discussion, a detail contents regarding the project will be explained. Contents
included are SimpleScalar's instruction format, register and operation cycle, software and
hardware used in the project, the SimpleScalar implementation in VHDL and VHDL
simulation. The further details will be discussed later.
Finally, this report is concluded in the Conclusion. Recommendations describe the
suggestions that can be done to the current project to improve them in the future.