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 |
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| Abstract | 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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| AbstractList | Presented are the results of attempts to design, develop, and evaluate tools and methods necessary to parameterize high performance, horizontally microprogrammed processors. A major goal of these efforts was to develop a practical, generalized, and portable procedure which would make possible: 1. the extraction of schematics and timing diagrams from the hardware, and 2. clear, concise expression of the structural and behavioral features of the machine which relate to efficient microcode generation. Such a procedure would allow the target processor to be altered quite easily in an existing automatic microcode generation system, thus enabling the production of experimental codes for a variety of machines. It is particularly significant that the procedure would make possible the hypothesis of a microarchitecture with specific characteristics and the generation of a microcode for a particular application problem that will run on this microengine. 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. |
| Author | Gieser, J.L. |
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| SubjectTerms | 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 |
| Title | On Horizontally Microprogrammed Microarchitecture Description Techniques |
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