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A system for microcode reduction (1996).
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
|---|---|
| Author | Rauscher, Reinhard Koegst, Manfred |
| Abstract | The design flow in the development of microcontrolled devices deals with a large number of design decisions which subsequently influence the realization costs. Some of these decisions are arbitrary choices between design alternatives with hardly any impact on the hardware structure. An example for such design alternatives is the ordering of data inputs at a multiplexor, which can be permutated without any costs in the data path. But such a reordering changes the control-codes for the multiplexor and may possibly allow a reduction of the size of the microcode. This paper presents an algorithm for microcode optimization which uses recoding of arbitrarily coded fields of the microinstruction. A set of design examples is used to demonstrate improvements achieved with our approach. |
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| Publisher Date | 1996-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Microcode Reduction Design Alternative Microcontrolled Device Deal Design Decision Design Example Realization Cost Design Flow Large Number Microcode Optimization Arbitrary Choice Data Path Hardware Structure Data Input |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
