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
Automatic microcode generation for horizontally microprogrammed processors
MICRO 14 Proceedings of the 14th annual workshop on Microprogramming
The optimization of horizontal microcode within and beyond basic blocks: an application of processor scheduling with resources
Experiments in Automatic Microcode Generation
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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A procedure is outlined for describing the microarchitecture of a horizontal processor such that a retargetable Microprogram Compiler System can incorporate the description to generate microcode for that processor. The microarchitecture description methodology is an organized approach to defining a machine's microinstruction formats, fields, and microorders; its hardware elements; its microoperation usage rules; and its behavioral rules. To a large extent, the description procedure can be performed interactively. The link between the microarchitecture description and the microprogram compiler, termed the instruction set interpretation mechanism, is also described. Preliminary application of the microarchitecture description methodology to several real processors has shown that, despite some problems, the procedure shows promise for significantly reducing the time required to retarget a microprogram compiler.