MPX soft-core processor running on the Papilio One 250K

March 19, 2012

MPX’ is a 32-bit soft-core pipelined RISC processor written in Verilog.The processor implements the majority of MIPS-I™ ISA excluding the formally patented unaligned load/store instructions & also the hw multiplier / divider (mult, multu, div, divu) instructions

The missing instructions can be resolved at compile time using a modified build of GCC or by generating traps at runtime on encountering the unsupported instructions.

You can check the source code, FPGA project and FPGA bit files at OpenCores.

And here is an example of an MP3/WAV decoder that was made with this MIPS-like processor, the project is an FPGA based MP3/WAV Player using just a FPGA, some RAM & a stereo DAC.

“The project consists of a custom 32-bit soft core processor running at just under 60MHz which decodes the MP3 algorithm in software with no hardware acceleration apart from a single cycle Xilinx multiplier unit.”

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