Automatic synthesis of microprogrammed control units from behavioral descriptions

Authors:
A. Kumar;S. Kumar;P. Kulshreshtha;S. Ghose
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016 INDIA;-;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016 INDIA;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi 110016 INDIA
Venue:
DAC '89 Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Year:
1989

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach for automatic synthesis of a microprogrammed control unit from a behavioral description, incorporating two new features:a) A rule based program to automatically design a microprogram sequencer most suited for the given behavior, considering the speed/cost requirements.b) A powerful microinstrunction format optimizer which considers a vast space of alternative formats and a novel encoding scheme.