Design of a RISC Microcontroller Core in 48 Hours
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In this paper we present a design case study using Handel-C—a recently developed programming language for compilation of high-level programs directly into FPGA hardware. The design is an 8-bit RISC microcontroller core with 33 instructions, prescaler and a programmable timer. Handel-C was used throughout the entire design and debugging flow. The RISC microcontroller design was implemented in on the XESS XS40 FPGA board with Xilinx XC4010XL FPGA . The overall design, including debugging, testing and the FPGA implementation was completed in less than 48 man-hours.
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