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PASC-HLL: An experience in design techniques for firmware and the supporting hardware

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PASC-HLL design started from a study of the high-level language PASCAL which allowed the definition of a special purpose intermediate language. A new mechanism for pipe-lined execution of polish strings using a FIFO queue instead of a push-down stack [1] made possible the design of a pipe-lined architecture bit-slice computer for high level language called PASC-HLL [2]. That computer consists in five special purpose microprogrammed processors, each being involved in a special function (instruction fetch, operand fetch, execution of operators, local storage management, and memory access).

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  1. 1 G. BAILLE & J.P. SCHOELLKOPF, "A pipe-line polish string computer", NCC 1976, New York, June 1976, pp. 723-731.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. 2 J.P. SCHOELLKOPF, "PASC-HLL: a pipe-lined architecture bit-slice computer for high level language", COMPCON 77, IEEE, Washington DC, September 1977.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. 3 J.P. SCHOELLKOPF, "Microprogramming: a step of a top-down design methodology", Proc. MICRO 7, pp. 203-207. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

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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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