In the next few chapters, we tie all of these ideas together by developing a top-down design for a small CPU design, verify its functionality, verify that it can be synthesized, and implement the ...

There are several different types of engineering hardware drawings, including: Block diagrams, which typically depict the major components of a board (processors, buses, I/O, memory) or a single ...

A number of 16 and 32-bit commercial cores were considered before concluding that the LEON processor offered the best overall solution. Figure 1: Block diagram of the LEON powered SoC The LEON ...