The design of some language constructs for horizontal microprogramming

Authors:
Subrata Dasgupta
Affiliations:
Computing Science Program, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Venue:
ISCA '77 Proceedings of the 4th annual symposium on Computer architecture
Year:
1977

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Abstract

This paper considers the problem of representing horizontal microprograms. Three forms of micro-parallelism are discussed: (a) Where micro-operations are concurrently executable within a single control memory clock cycle; (b) Where micro-operations are executable in a single clock cycle but are not concurrently executable, as in polyphase systems; and (c) Where there are concurrently executable micro-operations whose time of execution span several clock cycles. Language constructs for each of these forms are proposed, and their features discussed.