A new rapid prototyping firmware (RPF) tool

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A new rapid prototyping firmware (RPF) tool

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International Symposium on Microarchitecture archive
Proceedings of the 21st annual workshop on Microprogramming and microarchitecture table of contents

San Diego, California, United States

Pages: 94 - 96

Year of Publication: 1988

ISBN:0-8186-1919-8

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M. Andrews	SPACE TECH CORPORATION, 125 Crestridge Drive, Fort Collins, Colorado
F. Lam	White Sands Missile Range-STEWS ID/T, WSMR, New Mexico

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SIGMICRO: ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitectural Research and Processing

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IEEE Computer Society Press Los Alamitos, CA, USA

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ABSTRACT

Microprogramming has progressed from a method for systematically designing control units to its wide-spread application to the design, emulation, analysis, and implementation of instruction sets for general-purpose computers. The application was greatly enhanced through the family-oriented architectures of the IBM System 360 and on into the DEC PDP-11 family, culminating in the VAX family of machines. Today, systolic, VLSI, and VHSIC microarchitectures are demanding increased centralized microprogrammable control capability. However, microprogramming has always been a tedious, time consuming, difficult to verify and, therefore, costly exercise. A new rapid prototyping firmware (RPF) tool is described which ameliorates most of the problems.

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