Introduction to the FAST System and the ADL Language

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Dittrich, Aaron
  • MacGregor, Mike

• Technical report TR03-18. The Flexible Architecture Simulation Tool (FAST) and the Architecture Description Language (ADL) form a toolset that can be used for rapid prototyping of new processor architectures. This document provides an overview of how to use FAST, and an in-depth look at how to write an architecture description in ADL. The examples presented are centered around the MIPS RISC architecture. At first a single-stage MIPS architecture is presented, and then the remainder of the examples are centered around a simplified MIPS R2000/R3000 architecture. | TRID-ID TR03-18

• Date created

  2003

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Architecture Description Language
  • Flexible Architecture Simulation Tool

• Type of Item

  Report

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R37S7HT50

• License

  Attribution 3.0 International