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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) by vmsplice on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:34AM (#13743256)
I'm just a curious hardware development newbie passing by but would you be willing to share the open-source development tools used? It would be really interesting to take a peek at something that was used to develop a chip very quickly. Most of the hardware stuff seems to be quite complicated and not all that open.
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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) by rwmj on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:03AM (#13744195)
I'm not the original poster, but perhaps he's thinking of https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ I believe it can (or could?) generate C++ code which compiles into a program that simulates your design.
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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) by dnautics on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:32PM (#13746554)
They wanted to use chisel for the whole stack, but that was impossible because of one of their engineers.
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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) by dnautics on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:34PM (#13746570)
Check out verilator
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