A simple RISC machine built on the FPGA component of a De1-SoC board.

Purpose

Built a turing complete simple Reduced Instruction Set Computer machine with branching and memory functions on the FPGA component of a De1-SoC board using Verilog in the lab of a Microcomputers course at UBC.

Functions

• Finite State Machine (FSM) controller
• Program Counter (PC)
• Stack
• Branching
• Condition
• Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
• Memory
• Register files
• Shifter Unit
• Status flags

Concepts practiced

• Pipelining
• Verilog
• Writing testbenches
• Code review

Reflection

Gained a stronger understanding in the fundamental hardware of a computer.