• DocumentCode
    1139283
  • Title

    Architecture of a Hardware Data Interpreter

  • Author

    Chu, Yaohan

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1979
  • Firstpage
    101
  • Lastpage
    109
  • Abstract
    Data interpretation refers to the execution of the data declarations of a high-level language program which declare the data variables, the data types, and the data structures in the high-level language program. This paper introduces the direct-execution computer architecture and presents the architecture of a hardware data interpreter. The data interpreter scans the data declaration, and stores the type, structural, and referencing information about the data in an associative memory. It then interprets the data when the data name is referred to. It also performs the data operations of the data types of the high-level programming language.
  • Keywords
    Computer architecture; data declarations; direct-execution computer; hardware interpreter; high-level language computer; memory structure; Assembly; Associative memory; Character recognition; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Computer science; Data structures; Hardware; High level languages; Random access memory; Computer architecture; data declarations; direct-execution computer; hardware interpreter; high-level language computer; memory structure;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TC.1979.1675299
  • Filename
    1675299