lc3-hw

Implementing Dr. Yale Patt's LC-3 ISA in Verilog.

Initially, this project will implement the LC-3 as per the microarchitecture documentation in Introduction to Computing Systems 2e Appendix C.

The second phase will involve putting the implementation onto a Xilinx Basys3 FPGA as well as implementing the LC-3 devices; I fear this will probably take most of the time due to the simplified nature of the interface they expose.

Software Dependencies

• make
• Icarus Verilog (simulation)
• Xilinx Vivado Web-Pack (FPGA implementation)

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S make iverilog

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xilinx_Vivado for how to get Vivado running

Ubuntu

sudo apt install build-essential iverilog

See https://www.xilinx.com/support/download.html for the Vivado Web-Pack download .

Hardware Dependencies

• Digilent Basys 3 Artix-7 FPGA Trainer board (this will be the only FPGA I will be testing this on)