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Software tools used in the development of a VLSI VAX Microcomputer

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This paper presents an overview of the software tools used in the development of the microcode for Digital's VLSI VAX Microcomputers. The software tools effort consisted of five basic areas: assembly, simulation, verification, and statistical analysis.

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          cover image ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter
          ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter  Volume 15, Issue 4
          MICRO 17: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Microprogramming Workshop
          Dec. 1984
          302 pages
          ISSN:1050-916X
          DOI:10.1145/384281
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            MICRO 17: Proceedings of the 17th annual workshop on Microprogramming
            December 1984
            325 pages

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