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Microprogram design at the processor level

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This paper presents a method for separating the design and implementation phases of microprogram development. The microprogram is written in terms of register transfer level micro-operations and the microinstruction format is specified by means of a field-based representation schema. The micro-operations are automatically mapped into the micro-orders of the format and packed together into microinstruction words to yield a microprogram in the defined format.

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    cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
    ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 10, Issue 1
    March 1979
    26 pages
    ISSN:1050-916X
    DOI:10.1145/1217236
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    New York, NY, United States

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