MIDL - a microinstruction description language

  • Authors:
  • Marleen Sint

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • MICRO 14 Proceedings of the 14th annual workshop on Microprogramming
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

A microinstruction description language called MIDL is introduced. A MIDL description of a microarchitecture defines the semantics and triggering conditions of all microoperations. It also defines operand selection. MIDL incorporates a timing model that allows detailed specification of the timing of each microoperation, and a sequencing model that allows the description of many different sequencing schemes.