Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs
Communications of the ACM
Formalization and automatic derivation of code generators.
Formalization and automatic derivation of code generators.
Automated microprogram synthesis
Automated microprogram synthesis
Computer structures: Readings and examples (McGraw-Hill computer science series)
Computer structures: Readings and examples (McGraw-Hill computer science series)
Problem-Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence
Problem-Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence
Contrasting translation, verification and synthesis in software and firmware engineering
MICRO 14 Proceedings of the 14th annual workshop on Microprogramming
MIDL - a microinstruction description language
MICRO 14 Proceedings of the 14th annual workshop on Microprogramming
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The problem of automating the production of reliable micro-code is addressed. In contrast to validation and verification approaches which attempt to establish the correctness (incorrectness) of manually produced code with respect to a set of specifications, the automated synthesis approach attempts to systematically derive the code directly from the specifications. Formal representations of both microprogrammable machines and image machine instruction set requirement specifications are discussed, as is a formal semantic characterization of microprogram execution with respect to the given representations. The microprogram synthesis process is viewed as a special kind of theorem-proving process which attempts to prove the existence of a computation satisfying a requirement specification for a given machine, and when successful, extracts a corresponding microprogram directly from the proof. The NP-completeness of the problem leads to the necessity for effective heuristics, particularly when dealing with horizontal machines.