Modular Design Structure and High-Level Prototyping for Novel Embedded Processor Core

Abstract. In this research work, we present a high-level prototyping of a new processor core based on Queue architecture as starting point for application-specific processor design exploration. Using modular design structure with control logic implemented as a set of communicating state machines, we show hardware emulation and optimizations results of a parallel queue proecssor architecture (QueueCore). We also show how to to fully exploit the capabilities of the designed QueueCore, while maintaining a common source base. From the evaluation results, we show that the QueueCore prototype fits on a single conventional FPGA device, thereby obviating the need to perform multi-chip partitioning which results in a loss of resource efficiency.