SPANKy is for lovers

SPANKy!


Brought to you by group GAMMA:
Victoria Smith (vics@rice.edu)
Mara Prandi-Abrams (mabrams@rice.edu)
Dennis Geels (geels@rice.edu)

Overview - Functional Specifications - ISA - Controller - Design and Layout - Performance Analysis - Summary

423 Final Report


Overview

SPANKy is an eight-bit RISC CPU, designed as part of the VLSI course here at Rice University. It has a full range of basic arithmetic and logical operations, can address a total of 512 bytes of memory, and allows for limited user interaction. We designed the architecture with functionality and simplicity as the two main goals. In keeping with the RISC tradition, SPANKy is a load-store architecture, has uniform-length instructions, and even comes with extremely short mnemonics for the SPANKy assembly language.
SPANKy
[picture of spanky]