Sweet32 CPU

Sweet32 CPU

Details

Category: Processor

Created: October 20, 2014

Updated: January 27, 2020

Language: VHDL

Other project properties

Development Status: Beta

Additional info: FPGA proven, Specification done

WishBone compliant: No

WishBone version: n/a

License: LGPL

Description

Sweet32 is best described as a ‘no-frills’ Minimal-RISC 32bit microprocessor, created by Valentin Angelovski in Melbourne Australia.

Designed with low gate-count in mind, typical Sweet32 logic utilization on the Lattice MachXO2 FPGA (for example), is 842 LUT4 elements in a standard configuration and area-optimized form. Further details can be found in the Sweet32 RISC CPU overview 0v80. HDL sources can be found in the SVN link given above

Sweet32 Architecture Summary:

  • 16x32-bit General Purpose CPU registers
  • 27 Instructions, Von Neumann and Big-endian oriented core
  • 16x16-bit multiplier standard, with optional 32x32-bit multiplier support
  • single-cycle external Interrupt channel
  • Basic Trace/debug interrupt support included
  • Small FPGA Footprint
  • Sweet32 minimum-system example includes the following functional elements:
    • Sweet32 CPU and BIU (Bus interface unit) running at 33.3MHz and 100MHz respectively
    • 4KBytes RAM implemented as Block RAM and can also function as Boot ROM
    • 16-bit programmable system timer
    • 1 x UART
    • 1 x 11-bit sigma-delta ADC input channel
    • 2 x 11-bit sigma-delta PWM output channels
    • 4-bit User output port
  • Sweet32 VHDL is released under LGPL 2.1
  • C compiler support effort currently in progress