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Microcode development tools for a capability-based processor

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The MONADS-PC System is a capability-based computer constructed around a microprogrammed processor designed and implemented at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. This paper describes a set of tools developed as part of this project in order to simplify the implementation and testing of the microcode and to ensure consistency between the microcode and macro-level machine instruction set. Although some of these tools are at present machine specific, the paper demonstrates that they could be generalised into a flexible microcode development system.

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                    cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
                    ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 17, Issue 4
                    Dec. 1986
                    163 pages
                    ISSN:1050-916X
                    DOI:10.1145/19530
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                    • cover image ACM Conferences
                      MICRO 19: Proceedings of the 19th annual workshop on Microprogramming
                      December 1986
                      179 pages
                      ISBN:081860736X
                      DOI:10.1145/19551

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