A hardware definition of microprogramming

  • Authors:
  • Gerhard Chroust

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Laboratory Vienna, Vienna

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

This paper tries to give a simple, effective definition of 'microprogramming' by reducing this notion to the concept of a 'microcontrolled' machine. The class of microcontrolled machines can rigorously be defined using the terminology of switching algebra.