A guideline for rapid development of assembler to target tailor-made microprocessors

The emergence of FPGA technology and rapid advances in EDA tools and HDL languages enables engineers to design the hardware for general purpose or application specific microprocessors swiftly. However, its needed software suite cannot be developed as quickly. In this paper a guideline, based on LLVM infrastructure, for rapid development of an assembler is suggested. To demonstrate that, a simple 16-bit microprocessor, called Laser, is implemented on an FPGA.