On Horizontally Microprogrammed Microarchitecture Description Techniques

On Horizontally Microprogrammed Microarchitecture Description Techniques

In automatically generating microcode starting from a highlevel source language, a significant issue is the description of the target microengine architecture. The techniques and methodologies used to accomplish this address the practical issues of: 1) a detailed description of all microprogram cont...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. SE-8; no. 5; pp. 513 - 525
Main Author: Gieser, J.L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01-09-1982
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:
Automatic microcode generation
Compaction
Computer languages
Current measurement
Decoding
Development
High
High level languages
high-level microprogramming languages
Language
Level
Methods
Microarchitecture
microengine description techniques
Microprocessors
microprogrammed architectures
Microprogramming
Optimization techniques
Production
Programming languages
Software
Software engineering
Software standards
Software tools
Standards development
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Summary:In automatically generating microcode starting from a highlevel source language, a significant issue is the description of the target microengine architecture. The techniques and methodologies used to accomplish this address the practical issues of: 1) a detailed description of all microprogram controJled haudware elements of the microengine, the microinstruction, the rules for valid use of all microprogrammed features, and the behavior of microprogrammed operations; and 2) the use of this description to interpret and decode higher level source intermediate languages to form microoperations and ultimately microinstructions. This work is a step in conceptually defining the techniques and methodologies for microarchitecture descriptions to accomplish the above. Its objective is to identify the techniques that appear to have the most promise for use in interjecting the target microarchitecture characteristics into the high-level language-to-microcode compilation process.
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ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.1982.235739