Blimp Documentation

Important

Blimp has been superseded by Zeppelin. This project is no longer actively developed and is kept for reference.

This is the home for Blimp’s documentation, including installation, the overall framework, and how users can use and/or modify implementations.

Documentation is under construction - stay tuned for blank sections!

Overview

• Design Motivation and Philosophy
• Data Flow in the Processor
• Processor Versions
• Repository Structure
• Build System
• Dependencies
• Further Work

Microarchitectural Units

• Microarchitectural Units
  • Fetch Unit (FU)
  • Decode Issue Unit (DIU)
  • Execute Units (XU)
  • Writeback Commit Unit (WCU)
  • Sequencing Unit (SQU)
  • Squash Unit (SU)

Microarchitectural Details

• Sequence Numbers

Functional Level (FL) Utilities

• Assembler and Disassembler
• Functional-Level Processor

FPGA Implementation

• Memory-Mapped Peripherals
• Memory Network

Demonstrations

• Modifying Blimp
• Colossal Cave Demo