1. Microprogramming History -- Mark Smotherman Although loose usage has sometimes equated the term microprogramming with the Rather, microprogramming is a systematic technique for implementing the http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/uprog.html

A Brief History of Microprogramming Mark Smotherman. Last updated: March 1999 Definitions Although loose usage has sometimes equated the term "microprogramming" with the idea of "programming a microcomputer", this is not the standard definition. Rather, microprogramming is a systematic technique for implementing the control unit of a computer. It is a form of stored-program logic that substitutes for sequential-logic control circuitry. A processing unit in a computer system is composed of a data path and a control unit . The data path includes registers, function units such as ALUs (arithmetic and logic units) and shifters, interface units for main memory and/or I/O busses, and internal processor busses. The control unit governs the series of steps taken by the data path during the execution of a user-visible instruction, or macroinstruction (e.g., load, add, store, conditional branch). Each step in the execution of a macroinstruction is a transfer of information within the data path, possibly including the transformation of data, address, or instruction bits by the function units. A step is thus called a register transfer and is accomplished by gating out register contents (i.e., sending a copy) onto internal processor busses, selecting the operation of ALUs, shifters, etc., and gating in (i.e., receiving) new values for one or more registers.

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5. What Is Microprogramming? - A Word Definition From The Webopedia Computer Dictio This page describes the term microprogramming and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/microprogramming.html

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[Abstract] [ Overview New Technologies Bibliography Microprogramming Abstract: The microprogram is the essential part of the computer which allows the interaction between hardware and software. In many processors, the microprogram executes machine code instructions directly on the hardware, providing a final level of interpretation between machine language instructions and the basic memory and arithmetic operations performed by the hardware. However, some new architectures do not implement a microprogram. Instead, operations in the digital logic level are run directly by software. In this project, I will examine microprogramming in terms of its role as the intersection of hardware and software, and in doing so, compare and contrast microinstruction-rich and microinstruction-deficient architectures, and examine various new approaches to hardware/software interaction. Contents: Overview Background Horizontal Microprogramming Vertical Microprogramming Diagonal Microprogramming Nanoprogramming New Technologies RISC Superscaler VLIW TTA Bibliography Back to CS-63 homepage Send comments, questions, to Dan Stone (

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Abstract Overview New Technologies ] [Bibliography] Bibliography Brian Hayes A Computer With its Head Cut Off http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/issues/comsci95/compsci95-03.html. An overview of the trend toward minimal architecture. The author discusses the VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, a design which lacks not only microcode but also an instruction-decoding mechanism. As an introduction to this topic, the article includes an overview of the history of microprogramming, from its origins to its phasing out (in RISC architecture). The section on microprogramming has a brief but very clear explanation of how a microprogram operates, which was tremendously useful for my understanding of microcoding. A very readable article with a concise coverage of the topic. Gabriel Acosta-Lopez, Richard Clark, and Anne Wysocki, Introduction to RISC Technology http://193.25.22.84/person/prof/si/risc/intro_to_risc/irt0_index.html A course published by Apple designed to teach the recent history of computer architecture, the RISC- and CISC-style processors, and Apple's reasons for embracing RISC technology as a basis for new computer designs. Includes an in-depth examination of both types of processors along with their capabilities and limitations. Foundations of Microprogramming: Architecture, Software, and Applicationsby Ashook K Agrawala and Tomlinson G. Rauscher. ... Project Overview of the MOVE project at Delft University of Technology. This project is targeted toward the development of a transport-triggered architecture (TTA). A TTA processor is utilized by specifying data-transports as opposed to operations. The result is a CPU with a very slight control unit (indeed, if any) and a very complex compiler, which would generate code that coordinates hardware events. Out of the reduced-hardware, microprogram-deficient architectures I examined, this was the most minimal (?) of them.

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[Top] [Next] [Prev] 12.5 Microprogramming We have concentrated so far on alternative methods for organizing the next-state logic. Now we can discuss various ways to organize the output signals controlling the data-path. We usually think of control signals as implemented by discrete logic, even if the implementation makes use of PALs or PLAs. Microprogramming , on the other hand, is an approach for implementing processor control in which the output signals are stored within a ROM. The two main variations of microprogramming are the horizontal and vertical methods. In the previous section, we already saw some distinction between horizontal and vertical next-state organizations. In horizontal microprogramming , there is one ROM output for each control point in the data-path. Vertical microprogramming is based on the observation that only a subset of these signals is ever asserted in a given state. Thus, the control outputs can be stored in the ROM in an encoded form, effectively reducing the width of the ROM word at the expense of some external decoding logic. Encoding the control signals may limit the data-path operations that can take place in parallel. If this is the case, we may need multiple ROM words to encode the same data-path operations that could be performed in a single horizontal ROM word.

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[Top] [Next] [Prev] Exercises Moore Machine Figure 12.1 gives a Moore state diagram for implementing the simple CPU. Figure 12.2 showed the waveforms for the memory interface, to demonstrate the correct execution of a memory read operation in the instruction fetch states. Repeat this analysis for the state sequence OD, ST0, ST1, IF0 to verify that the interface signals correctly handle a memory write operation. Draw a timing diagram similar to Figure 12.2 labeled by the current state and including the waveforms for the memory address bus, memory databus, request, and read/write signals. Annotate the waveform with comments about the arrival of the appropriate data in the MAR and MBR registers. Synchronous Mealy Machine Section 12.1.2 described a strategy for constructing a synchronous Mealy machine by placing flip-flops between the inputs and the next-state logic. Assume that the state diagram of Figure 11.23 has been implemented as a synchronous Mealy machine in which the memory Wait signal is delayed by a synchronizing flip-flop. Verify that the memory interface operates correctly by drawing timing diagrams for all control signals asserted by the instruction fetch states. Include in your diagram the Wait signal as it leaves the memory subsystem and Wait as it is delayed by the synchronizing flip-flop.

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15. Microprogramming Lab microprogramming Lab. CS63 Principles of Computer Organization Fall Semester, 1997. Ray Ontko Department of Computer Science Earlham College http://www.ontko.com/~rayo/micro_lab.html

Microprogramming Lab CS63: Principles of Computer Organization Fall Semester, 1997 Ray Ontko Department of Computer Science Earlham College The purpose of this lab is to give you a chance to explore microprogramming and how the microprogram interacts with the hardware to implement a conventional machine language interpreter. Such simulators are used in the development of real microcode, and this lab is designed to give you a feel for what it is like to write (and debug) true machine language. Using the Mic-1 control store which I have entered (but not thoroughly tested), do each of the following and demonstrate it for your neighbor: Enter an instruction at address 2000(hex) in conventional memory. Use the Mac-1 instruction set (Fig. 4-14 on page 185) and pick an instruction that interests you. Clear the registers and step through the microcode by clock sub-cycle and watch carefully to see what's happening both in the hardware animation window, and in the microcode window. Does the instruction do exactly what you expected? Is it correct? Pick 8 sequential lines from the microprogram. Examine them carefully to see if they are identical (in description) to the corresponding lines in the text (Fig. 4-16, page 190-191). Now, check to see if each of them exacly implements the correct hardware functions. Note that Oddone has eliminated the TIR register (I have used A), and I have assumed that the X12 and Low8 registers have been pre-loaded with the AMASK and SMASK constants (0FFF and 00FF, respectively).

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