Local Microcode Compaction Techniques
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Some Aspects of High-Level Microprogramming
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
An experiment in high level language microprogramming and verification
Communications of the ACM
Principles Firmware Engineering
Principles Firmware Engineering
Microarchitecture description techniques
MICRO 15 Proceedings of the 15th annual workshop on Microprogramming
Heuristics for the global optimization of microprograms
MICRO 13 Proceedings of the 13th annual workshop on Microprogramming
Towards an efficient, machine-independent language for microprogramming
MICRO 12 Proceedings of the 12th annual workshop on Microprogramming
Hardware and software tools for the development of a micro-programmed microprocessor
MICRO 12 Proceedings of the 12th annual workshop on Microprogramming
Design objectives for high level microprogramming languages
MICRO 11 Proceedings of the 11th annual workshop on Microprogramming
A machine independent approach to the production of optimized horizontal microcode.
A machine independent approach to the production of optimized horizontal microcode.
Methods of compacting microprograms
Methods of compacting microprograms
The optimization of horizontal microcode within and beyond basic blocks: an application of processor scheduling with resources
The MPG System: A Machine-Independent Efficient Microprogram Generator
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Trace Scheduling: A Technique for Global Microcode Compaction
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A High-Level Language for Horizontal Microprogramming
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Strum: Structured Microprogram Development System for Correct Firmware
IEEE Transactions on Computers
The Identification of Maximal Parallelism in Straight-Line Microprograms
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Toward Optimization of Horizontal Microprograms
IEEE Transactions on Computers
On the Design of a Microcode Compiler for a Machine-Independent High-Level Language
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On Horizontally Microprogrammed Microarchitecture Description Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Computer
Microcode compaction: looking backward and looking forward
AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
V-Compiler: a next-generation tool for microprogramming
AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
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A procedure is described which permits applications problems coded in a higher level language to be compiled to microcode for horizontally microprogrammed processors. An experimental language has been designed which is suitable for expressing computationally oriented problems for such processors in a distributed processing environment. Source programs are compiled first to a machine independent intermediate language and then to a machine dependence form consisting of elementary microoperations, with optimizations performed during each step. The microoperations are then compacted into executable microinstructions for a specific target machine. The procedure has been implemented for experimental purposes and used to compile several different types of applications programs. The experimental results are presented with an interpretation and analysis, along with recommendations for future study.