Minas Dasygenis

The E80 Microworld: A Gate-Transparent VHDL CPU and One-Click Toolchain

The E80 is an open-source, 8-bit, single-cycle soft processor written in VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) from gates, multiplexers, and flip-flops, without an arithmetic package. Its 39 instructions were derived from a survey of eight sources of introductory computer ar...