Microcode compaction via microblock definition

Authors:
M. Mezzalama;P. Prinetto;G. Filippi
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica - Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino - Italy;Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica - Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino - Italy;Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica - Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino - Italy
Venue:
MICRO 15 Proceedings of the 15th annual workshop on Microprogramming
Year:
1982

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Abstract

The paper describes a microprogram compaction technique based on a microoperation and microistruction modelling, applicable to different types of target machine. The model describes microoperation semantics by relating them to microcodes used in microinstruction fields, without any explicit description of machine timing. Evaluation of the proposed technique is given in terms of efficiency of the automatically generated microcode.