Using synthesis, simulation, and hardware emulation to prototype a pipelined RISC computer system
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This paper describes a VHDL based rapid prototyping approach to simulate, synthesize, and implement a prototype computer system using commercial CAD tools, a meta assembler, a retargetable C compiler, and FPGAs in a hardware emulator. This methodology is utilized in a senior design laboratory sequence of two required courses for computer engineering students at Georgia Tech.
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