Trends in Microprogramming: A Second Reading

Jones, Louise H.; Merwin, Richard E.

doi:10.1109/t-c.1974.224031

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“…Appropriate references were utilized to help define the educational design objectives. Various application and design papers [3], [4], [6], [8], [13], [14], [16], [19] were also useful. Regardless of whether MIME is employed as a demonstration tool or as a test-bed for microprograms, the student must be able to provide stimuli to MIME and observe the response.…”

Section: Requirements Definition and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

MIME: An Educational Microprogrammable Minicomputer Emulator

Purvis¹,

Yoho

Lamont

1981

IEEE Trans. Educ.

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Abstract-This paper discusses the design and fabrication of MIME, a low-cost microprogrammable, general purpose computer specifically configured for use in an educational environment. In order to have utility as an instructional aid in the areas of computer control and microprogramming, such a machine must have the following high level attributes: educationally oriented human interface, educationally oriented design, and user microprogrammability. These attributes were employed as a basis for deriving functional and detail requirements.The AM 2900 bipolar microprocessor family was used as the basis for realizing the design which satisfied the defimed requirements. The resulting hardware and software is being employed at the Air Force Institute of Technology by students in computer engineering classes and associated laboratories to investigate microprogramming and its application to emulation. The paper also presents, through the development of this processor, an excellent example of top-down design.

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Section: Requirements Definition and Designmentioning

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MIME: An Educational Microprogrammable Minicomputer Emulator

Purvis¹,

Yoho

Lamont

1981

IEEE Trans. Educ.

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“…It appears that microprogramming is used in practice, not for its systematic implementation of the control section, but for its ability to offer emulation capabilities. It is interesting however, to note that microprogramming is used to implement the control of the streaming unit of the CDC STAR 100 [23].…”

Section: Physical Organization Control Of Information Flow and Reprementioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Framework for Computer Architecture

Reddi

Feustel

1976

ACM Comput. Surv.

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the concepts, definitions, and ideas of computer architecture and to suggest that architecture can be viewed as composed of three components: physical organization; control and flow of information; and representation, interpretation and transformation of information. This framework can accommodate diverse architectural concepts such as array processing, mieroprogramming, stack processing and tagged architecture. Architectures of some existing machines are considered and methods of associating architectural concepts with the components are established. Architecture design problems and trade-offs are discussed in terms of the proposed framework. Address Address 20 bits Smgle Address ] Program couple control word (PCW) Address J Return control couple word (RCW) Indirect Address J reference * S. S. Reddi and E. A. Feustel

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“…Algorithms for floating-point arithmetic and parsing were studied because these algorithms either are currently implemented in microcode in contemporary machines or are likely to be microcoded in systems of the next generation [9] . The logic for the microprogram was developed in a top-down manner using the control constructs of structured programming (BLOCK, IF-THEN-ELSE, and DO-WHILE); and microcode was written using several of the sets of sequencing functions described in Section 3.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Microprogrammable processors have also been proposed as the basis of special systems such as the ISPL System [2] and the Venus Machine [ii], and there is increasing evidence that compiler and operating system functions will be implemented in microcode in the next generation of computer systems [9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Microinstruction sequencing and structured microprogramming

Jones¹

1974

Conference Record of the 7th Annual Workshop on Microprogramming - MICRO 7

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Trends in Microprogramming: A Second Reading

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

MIME: An Educational Microprogrammable Minicomputer Emulator

MIME: An Educational Microprogrammable Minicomputer Emulator

A Conceptual Framework for Computer Architecture

Microinstruction sequencing and structured microprogramming

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