glacial
Glacial - microcoded RISC-V core designed for low FPGA resource utilization (by brouhaha)
sulong
Obsolete repository. Moved to oracle/graal. (by graalvm)
| glacial | sulong | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | |
| 80 | 627 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| over 4 years ago | over 5 years ago | |
| Python | Java | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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glacial
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- Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato
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Glacial – microcoded RISC-V core designed for low FPGA resource utilization
I'm surprised that there aren't any specialised instructions or hardware resources to handle the RISC-V instruction decoding/dispatching. [1]
Like, sure, it's not meant to be a fast implementation, but even just a "mask byte with 0x7C and set PC to that value times 8" instruction (which in an FPGA implementation is just rearranging the wires) could save 5-6 cycles per instruction.
Is it really "microcoded" when all you're doing is writing a RISC-V emulator that runs on what looks to be a fairly standard 8 bit CPU?
[1] https://github.com/brouhaha/glacial/blob/master/ucode/ucode....
sulong
Posts with mentions or reviews of sulong.
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Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato
Sulong is another. But yeah maybe not 100% compatible, I don't know.
https://github.com/graalvm/sulong/blob/master/docs/ARCHITECT...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing glacial and sulong you can also consider the following projects:
serv - SERV - The SErial RISC-V CPU
minimax - Minimax: a Compressed-First, Microcoded RISC-V CPU
crystal - The Crystal Programming Language