• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.135-141
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• 2020

Today, CPUs in general-purpose computers such as servers, desktops and laptops, as well as home appliances and embedded systems, consist mostly of multicore processors. In order to improve performance, it is required to use an out-of-order execution processor by Tomasulo algorithm as each core processor. An out-of-order execution processor with Tomasulo algorithm can execute the available instructions in any order and perform speculation in order to reduce control dependencies. Therefore, the performance of an out-of-order execution processor can be significantly improved compared to an in-order execution processor. In this paper, an out-of-order execution processor using Tomasulo algorithm and ARM instruction set is designed using VHDL record data types and simulated by GHDL. As a result, it is possible to successfully perform operations on programs written in ARM instructions.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.143-149
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• 2020

Currently, a multi-core processor is mainly used as a central processing unit of a computer system, and a high-performance out-of-order processor is adopted as each core to maximize system performance. The early out-of-order execution processor with Tomasulo algorithm aimed at floating-point instructions, and it took several cycles to execute by the use of complex structures such as reorder buffer and reservation station. However, in order for the processor to properly utilize out-of-order execution and increase the throughput of instructions, it must operate in a fully pipelined manner. In this paper, a fully pipelined out-of-order processor with speculative execution is designed with VHDL and verified with GHDL. As a result of the simulation, a program composed of ARM instructions is successfully performed.