Hi Everyone,

I am desperate for a recommendation for a text book or a reference as a kick start for RISC processor architectures. I am looking for something that can help me to customize a RISC processor or even build my own.

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Could you please elaborate more?

What do you mean when you say even build my own? Are you thinking of using FPGAs for building a RISC processor? If so have a look:

https://opencores.org/project,risc_processor

https://opencores.org/project,altor32

https://opencores.org/project,lwrisc

https://opencores.org/project,erp

In terms of books I can suggest the following:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-RISC-Processors-Pro...

Best wishes,

Pedro

Hi Pedro,

This is exactly what I am looking forward to, build my own to test over an FPGA. Thanks a lot for your feedback. Appreciated.

I checked the text book and it seems to be for software oriented engineers more than hardware.

Regards.

If your goal is to understand the architecture, I suggest "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessey and Patterson. Explains the details in a readable and understandable way.

Thanks a lot for your feedback. Appreciated.

Regards.

A good start to understanding RISC processor architectures I found helpful was Computers as Components by Wolf. Had some good architectural material in there, also some good info on trade-offs made in the designs.

Thanks a lot for your feedback. Appreciated.

I checked the text book and it seems to be for software oriented engineers more than hardware.

Regards.