Modified Version of Ripes simulator to include RISC-V multicycle processor.

This project is a modified version of the original repository Ripes, which implements a RISC-V multicycle processor.

Description

The goal of this project is to extend the original repository to add additional features and specific enhancements related to the implementation of a RISC-V multicycle processor.

Modified Features

• New VSRTL components such as write control registers, read control memory (instrucction and data), ALU flags to check conditional branches.

• New multicycle processor model added (state diagram).

Compilation

This project follows the same compilation guidelines as the original repository Ripes.

Ripes is a visual computer architecture simulator and assembly code editor built for the RISC-V instruction set architecture.

Usage

Ripes may be used to explore concepts such as:

• How machine code is executed on a variety of microarchitectures (RV32IMC/RV64IMC based)
• How different cache designs influence performance
• How C and assembly code is compiled and assembled to executable machine code
• How a processor interacts with memory-mapped I/O

If this is your first time using Ripes, please refer to the introduction/tutorial.
For further information, please refer to the Ripes documentation.

Downloading & Installation

Prebuilt binaries are available for Linux, Windows & Mac through the Releases page.

Linux

Releases for Linux are distributed in the AppImage format. To run an AppImage:

• Run chmod a+x on the AppImage file
• Run the file! The AppImage for Linux should be compatible with most Linux distributions.

Windows

For Windows, the C++ runtime library must be available (if not, a msvcp140.dll error will be produced). You most likely already have this installed, but if this is not the case, you download it here.

Building

Initially, the following dependencies must be made available:

• A recent (>=5.15) version of Qt + Qt Charts (not bundled with Qt by default, but can be selected during Qt installation)
• CMake

Then, Ripes can be checked out and built as a standard CMake project:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ermaury/TFG_Ripes_MultiCycle_Processor.git
cd Ripes/
cmake .
Unix:               Windows:
make                jom.exe / nmake.exe / ...

Note, that you must have Qt available in your CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. For further information on building Qt projects with CMake, refer to Qt: Build with CMake.