4-Bit Optimized Nano Processor

🚀 Overview

Our project involved the design and optimization of a 4-bit Nano Processor. The development process spanned three stages, with each step focusing on enhancing performance and resource utilization. Key accomplishments included extending instruction support, improving the adder/subtractor unit, and optimizing various components.

🛠️ Key Stages

1st Stage: We constructed a basic nano processor. Components were developed separately and an assembly program was written to perform simple tasks.
2nd Stage: Significant improvements were made, including enhancing the adder/subtractor unit to handle 8-bit calculations, optimizing the register bank and MUXes for 8-bit values, and extending instruction support.
3rd Stage: The final design was meticulously optimized for both 4-bit and 8-bit processors. Techniques such as implementing slow clocks without using integer constants, writing components in high-level code, and utilizing DSP blocks in clocks were employed to minimize LUT and FF count. Certainly! Below is a description of a w-bit Nano Processor that supports various instructions, including add, mov, neg, jnz, and halt. Additionally, the 8-bit Nano Processor includes support for sub, inc, dec, nop, mul, and div instructions.

📜 Instruction Set

Both the 4-bit and 8-bit versions of the nano processor feature a versatile instruction set designed to perform a range of operations efficiently. Here are the supported instructions:

Common Instructions (4-bit and 8-bit):

ADD - Adds two values.
MOV - Copies a value from one location to another.
NEG - Negates a value.
JNZ - Jumps to a specified location if a condition is met.
HALT - Stops program execution.

Additional Instructions (8-bit Nano Processor):

SUB - Subtracts one value from another.
INC - Increments a value by 1.
DEC - Decrements a value by 1.
NOP - No operation; does nothing.
MUL - Multiplies two values.
DIV - Divides one value by another.

📊 Key Diagrams

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