Development and prototyping system far an 8-bit multitask micropower processor

Author

Fink, Stefan ; Sanchez, Eduardo

Author_Institution

Logic Syst. Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1995

fDate

7-9 Jun 1995

Firstpage

75

Lastpage

78

Abstract

A low power, event-driven microprocessor, called PUNCH, has been conceived, realized and commercialized in Switzerland. In this paper we present a development and prototyping system for PUNCH, composed of two main parts: an emulator and a monitor. The emulator is an implementation of the PUNCH architecture using Actel FPGA circuits, on a NuBus format card hosted by a Macintosh computer. The monitor is a program running on the Macintosh, allowing symbolic debugging (display and modification of the resources of the processor, as well as control of the execution of the applications)

Keywords

Apple computers; computer architecture; development systems; field programmable gate arrays; microprocessor chips; program debugging; system monitoring; Actel FPGA circuits; Macintosh computer; NuBus format card; PUNCH; development system; emulator; low power event-driven microprocessor; monitor; multitask micropower processor; prototyping system; symbolic debugging; Application software; Circuits; Commercialization; Computer architecture; Computer displays; Computerized monitoring; Debugging; Field programmable gate arrays; Microprocessors; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Rapid System Prototyping, 1995. Proceedings., Sixth IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Chapel Hill, NC

ISSN

1074-6005

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7100-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWRSP.1995.518574

Filename

518574