TABLE OF CONTENTS The CD-ROM included with this book contains the Exploration/VHDL compiler/simulator from FTL Systems, on-line VHDL source code extracted from the book and a collection of software tools for working with the DLX processor described in Chapter 15. Versions of the software are supplied for both Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems running on Intel Pentium or compatible computers. This appendix describes how to install and use the software.
The example and case-study VHDL code is included in the designers-guide-source directory of the CD-ROM. You can access the files from the CD-ROM or you can copy them to your computer by following the installation instructions below.
The DLX tools provided on the CD-ROM allow you to prepare programs for execution using the DLX instruction set interpreter models described in the case study in Chapter 15 and the file-loaded memory model described in Section 18.2. The software was developed by David Knight at Adelaide University, South Australia, and is Copyright Adelaide University. Permission is granted to use the software for educational and non-commercial use.
The DLX tools consist of the following programs:
dasm an assembler that generates relocatable and absolute object files,
dlnk a linker that combines separately assembled relocatable object files into a single relocatable object file and
dloc a locater that converts a relocatable object file into an absolute object file ready for loading and executing by a DLX processor.
Information on using the tools can be found in the DLX Tools Guide document provided...
