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Soft-core processor design

2004· dissertation· W7132929637 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Franjo Plavec

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2004
Typedissertation
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicEmbedded Systems Design Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Toronto
KeywordsField-programmable gate arrayMicroprocessorNios IIComponent (thermodynamics)VerilogProcess (computing)Gate arrayCircuit design
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Nios soft-core processor from Altera Corporation is studied and a Verilog implementation of the Nios soft-core processor has been developed, called UT Nios. The UT Nios is described, its performance dependence on various architectural parameters is investigated and then compared to the original implementation from Altera. Experiments show that the performance of different types of applications varies significantly depending on the architectural parameters. The performance comparison shows that UT Nios achieves performance comparable to the original implementation. Finally, the design methodology, experiences from the design process and issues encountered are discussed. Recent advancements in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology have resulted in FPGA devices that support the implementation of a complete computer system on a single FPGA chip. A soft-core processor is a central component of such a system. A soft-core processor is a microprocessor defined in software, which can be synthesized in programmable hardware, such as FPGAs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.628
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0040.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.069
GPT teacher head0.365
Teacher spread0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2004
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