Do you have any recommendations for tools for this?
The actual processor was implemented on a Xilinx FPGA, and it was about 2K lines of HDL code, carrying about 25 application-specific instructions which I had designed also.
For the compiler, disassembler, IDE, emulator, I created in C# and .NET.
While I did not use these, there are also ASIPs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_instruc...