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A meta-assembler for highly-parallel microprogrammable systems

Published:30 November 1980Publication History
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This paper describes a software system whose input is a description of a highly parallel (horizontally) microprogrammable machine as reflected in the organization of the machine's “word” and a set of user-specified statement “patterns” defining the microprogramming language. Programs in the user-defined language are assembled into relocatable segments, which are linked together by a loader to form object modules. This design has proved effective in an environment where a group of engineers and programmers were involved in the programming of several architecturally different components for the emulation of the IBM System/370 on the NANODATA QMX.

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          cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
          ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 11, Issue 3-4
          Dec. 1980
          177 pages
          ISSN:1050-916X
          DOI:10.1145/1014190
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          New York, NY, United States

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