Functional languages in microcode compilers

Authors:
S. J. Allan
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, Utah State University
Venue:
MICRO 22 Proceedings of the 22nd annual workshop on Microprogramming and microarchitecture
Year:
1989

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Abstract

This paper discusses the advantages of using high-level languages in the development of microcode. It also describes reasons functional programming languages should be considered as the source language for microcode compilers. The emergence of parallel execution in microarchitectures dictates that parallelism must be extracted from the microcode programs. This paper shows how functional languages meet the needs of microprogrammers by allowing them to express their algorithms in natural ways while allowing the microcode compiler to extract the parallelism from the program.