Computer Structure Lab - Fall 99

people:

Dr. Guy Even guy@eng.tau.ac.il
URL: http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~guy/index.html
Office Hour: Tuesday 12-13, Room 116, Engineering-Labs Building

Dani Seidner danis@eng.tau.ac.il
Office Hour: Monday 7-8 (by appointment), Room 102, Engineering-Labs Building

Marko Markov marko@eng.tau.ac.il Tel: 640-8294 (lab) 640-6919 (room 106)

Lab: Room 204, Engineering-Classes Building, Tuesdays 9-12, 13-16, Wednesdays 8-11, 11-14.
Exercise: Dan David Building, Monday 8-9

Connecting busses with the Foundation software: This figure shows what happens when buses are connected. Special attention is given to index order ([31:0] vs. [0:31]) and to connections made by identical names.

Xilinx manual on how to use ABEL (10 pages, copied from the APPLINX CDROM) XAPP075: Using ABEL with Xilinx CPLDs (pdf). Another manual XAPP109: Hints, Tips and Tricks for using XABEL with Xilinx M1.5 Design and Implementation Tools (pdf).
Xilinx Student Edition - Foundation Ver. 1.5 can be loaned from the library (overnight). (system number <1466473>) library catalog entry.
Digital Design Principles and Practices by John F. Wakerly. This digital design book is written so that the students can do everything also with the Xilinx Student Edition Foundation Software. The book also has a web site with ABEL examples and examples of Foundation 1.5 schematics. Visit the student site.
Xilinx Course Material, includes a manual on the ABEL language.
Xilinx University Program
"The Complexity of Simple Computer Architectures", by Silvia M. Müller and Wolfgang J. Paul
- Introduction and Table Of Contents [58Kb]
- List of corrections [26Kb]
- Paper by Müller and Paul [50Kb]
- Cost and runtime programs: tar [152Kb], tar.gz [20Kb]