Implementation of a SIC/XE processor on an FPGA and supporting system software : bachelor's thesis

Kloboves, Klemen (author), Dobravec, Tomaž (mentor), Bulić, Patricio (co-mentor)

SIC/XE je hipotetična računalniška arhitektura namenjena učenju sistemskega programiranja. V tem delu je predstavljen izobraževalni SIC/XE računalnik, ki smo ga implementirali na FPGA razvojni plošči. Sistem je sestavljen iz SIC/XE procesorja, krmilnikov naprav in ostalih pomožnih komponent. Poleg tega smo razvili tudi zbirko sistemskih programov namenjenih za uporabo s sistemom. Zbirka programov vključuje zbirnik, povezovalnik in simulator, s katerimi lahko ustvarjamo in preizkušamo programe za računalnik SIC/XE. Programe lahko prenesemo iz osebnega računalnika na FPGA ploščo preko serijske povezave z uporabo priloženega programa.

• Language: English
• Keywords: SIC/XE, FPGA, procesor, zbirnik, povezovalnik, simulator, računalništvo, računalništvo in informatika, univerzitetni študij, diplomske naloge
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publisher: [K. Kloboves]
• Year: 2014
• Number of pages: 51 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-68685
• UDC: 004.2(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10691668
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Implementation of a SIC/XE processor on an FPGA and supporting system software

Abstract

SIC/XE is a hypothetical computer architecture designed for teaching systems software programming. In this work, we present an educational SIC/XE computer that we implemented on an FPGA development board. The system consists of a SIC/XE processor, device controllers and other auxiliary components. In addition, we also developed a suite of system software utilities for use with our system. The suite includes assembler, linker and simulator utilities which can be used to create and test programs for the SIC/XE computer. Programs can be transferred from a personal computer to the FPGA board over a serial connection, using a provided software tool.

• Keywords: SIC/XE, FPGA, processor, assembler, linker, simulator, computer science, computer and information science, diploma