Section: New Results

HoMade

HOMADE V5 is available from 03/2014. New features cover :

• new pipeline architecture with delayed conditional branch

• new unified FSM: Pipeline 2 stages

• renumbering of some IPs

• new activity management on the Slaves in 1D / 2D : by the master OnX , OnY, OnXY, and by the slaves the IPsleep removes the Slave from the next SPMDcall

• new bit per bit loading of program memories, for master and slaves

• new names for some components.

• new versions of a lot of IPs (inside)

• new communication network between Slaves: 2D torus ring with broadcast and communication on x or y axis

• new input binary file format (to respect !!)

• new test_bench for fast reading of instruction files

• new UART wrapper

• new assembler Hasm for those that do not speak binary

• nexys3 version for cheap platform experimentation ( does not support more than 2x1 Slaves )

• V6 V7 xilinx supports up to 12 x 12 slaves

• Isim supports many more slaves !!!

More details can be found on www.lifl.fr/~dekeyser/Homade .