The purpose of this project is to build a simplified single-cycle processor (Single-cycle processor: an instruction is fetched from memory, it is executed, and the results are stored all in a single clock cycle.)
computer science
Description
Project summary:
The purpose of this project is to build a simplified single-cycle processor (Single-cycle processor: an instruction is fetched from memory, it is executed, and the results are stored all in a single clock cycle.) on Basys 3 board that would be capable of performing several types of instructions. The processor you will design will perform several functions depending on the 16- bit instructions on 8-bit data. Your design should include instruction memory, data memory, a register file and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). The instruction memory should be a read-only memory. Data memory should be able to hold 16x8-bit data. Instructions to be executed should be either picked from the instruction memory, or from the switches on Basys3. Depending on the instruction, processor should do addition, load/store, and branch operations.
Instructions:
The processor will work on 16-bit instructions where the most significant 3-bits will be used as
the opcode (abbreviated from operation code, also known as instruction code is the portion of
a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed.). Depending on
the opcode, the controller will decide what to do, how to interpret the rest of the instruction,
and send the necessary control signals back to datapath.
