LLVM/LLVA on IMSYS WISC CPU

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There is a strange Writable Instruction Set Computing CPU from Imsys (Sweden) based on FPGA.
Is it possible to setup the IMSYS CPU for running applications based on LLVA/LLVM?
Thank you.

Swedish microprocessor developer Imsys Technologies has released three devices in its reconfigurable family of processors. Unveiled at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, each device combines the processor with application specific soft peripherals, optimised for wired or wireless network applications. Imsys uses a field programmable architecture, where custom instruction sets can be downloaded as microcode.

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This is definitely possible and there is at least one company (AutoESL) using LLVM for a similar purpose -- generating hardware designs from System-C source descriptions compiled to LLVM. It would require you to implement the appropriate LLVM-to-FPGA transformations for this chip.

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