1. EKT303 PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE Mini Project Design and Implementation of Two Concurrent 8-bit CPUs Using Structural VHDL code for better Workload Balance 1 VIVA ON 8-12 OF DECEMBER, 2014

2. Specifications (1/3) The CPU must be designed in a separate functional unit of Datapath, Control and Memory as shown in Figure 1. 2 DatapathControl unit Memory Figure 1

3. Specifications (2/3) Both CPUs have simple instruction set as shown in Table 1 3 Direct Addressing Mode Register Addressing Mode Immediate Addressing Mode Instruction XXXMOV XXADD XXSUB XXAND XXOR XSHIFT JUMP Table 1

4. Specifications (3/3) The Two concurrent CPUs must connected through shared Memory as shown in Figure 2. 4 CPU 1 CPU 2 Shared Memory Figure 2