DESIGN OF A SYNTHESIZABLE PIPELINED MIPS CORE FOR EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS
Venkateswarlu Kota, D. Tirumala Rao · 2014
The use of soft core processors has become inevitable in electronic and mechanical industries for embedded applications. A soft-core processor is a model of hardware description language (HDL) of a specific processor which can be customized for a given application and synthesized for Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)/FPGA. Usually they contain embedded processors that are often in the form of soft-core processors that execute software code. In this paper soft-core reconfigurable pipelined MIPS processor is developed, which is used in all embedded onchip applications. Specifically, synthesizable VHDL model for un-pipelined and pipelined MIPS Processor is simulated. This design is useful for all synthesized to verify the synthesizability. Modelsim is used for logical verification and synthesizing is carried out using XilinxISE14.2 tool. The results prove the proper functioning of the processor and found to occupy less area compared to previous one.