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On the packing of micro-operations into micro-instruction words

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This paper discusses the problem of packing a serially expressed straight line segment of micro-program into micro-instruction words of a particular format. It outlines and compares the methods that have been proposed to solve particular instances of the problem and describes a program written to solve the general case.

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              cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
              ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 9, Issue 4
              Dec. 1978
              160 pages
              ISSN:1050-916X
              DOI:10.1145/1014198
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