The LEON3 Processor

This section contains a brief description of the LEON3 SPARC V8 processor implementation developed by Gaisler Research, with an emphasis on information relevant to the derived UTLEON3 microthreaded processor. The LEON3 processor is part of the GRLIB package that is under continuous development; the following description is based on GRLIB Version 1.0.17. The description provided in this section is organized in a top-down manner, starting with a view of the whole IP library GRLIB and going down to the LEON3 integer pipeline.