TY - GEN
T1 - Lipsi: Probably the Smallest Processor in the World
AU - Schoeberl, Martin
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - While research on high-performance processors is important, it is also interesting to explore processor architectures at the other end of the spectrum: tiny processor cores for auxiliary functions. While it is common to implement small circuits for such functions, such as a serial port, in dedicated hardware, usually as a state machine or a combination of communicating state machines, these functionalities may also be implemented by a small processor. In this paper, we present Lipsi, a very tiny processor to make it possible to implement classic finite state machine logic in software at a minimal cost.
AB - While research on high-performance processors is important, it is also interesting to explore processor architectures at the other end of the spectrum: tiny processor cores for auxiliary functions. While it is common to implement small circuits for such functions, such as a serial port, in dedicated hardware, usually as a state machine or a combination of communicating state machines, these functionalities may also be implemented by a small processor. In this paper, we present Lipsi, a very tiny processor to make it possible to implement classic finite state machine logic in software at a minimal cost.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-77610-1_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-77610-1_2
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 9783319776095
VL - 10793
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 18
EP - 30
BT - Architecture of Computing Systems
PB - Springer
T2 - 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
Y2 - 9 April 2018 through 12 April 2018
ER -