Extending the power of short-wordlength processors by means of context-dependent machine instructions

Authors:
C K Yuen
Affiliations:
CSIRO Division of Computing Research, Canberra City, Australia
Venue:
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Year:
1981

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Abstract

It is shown that the concept of context-dependent machine instructions may be used in the architectural design of processors with short wordlengths, such as 8-bit microprocessors, in order to increase the capabilities of such machines above those of currently available models.