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An overview of the MATHILDA system

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A dynamically microprogrammable processor called MATHILDA is described. MATHILDA has been designed to be used as a tool in emulator and processor design research. It has a very general micro-instruction sequencing scheme, sophisticated masking and shifting capability, high speed local storage, a 64-bit wide main data path, a horizontally encoded microinstruction, and other facilities which make it reasonably well suited for this purpose. This paper presents an overview of the MATHILDA system.

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    cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
    ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 5, Issue 4
    January 1975
    54 pages
    ISSN:1050-916X
    DOI:10.1145/1217166
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