A development environment for horizontal microcode

Author

Aiken, Alexander ; Nicolau, Alexandru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

Volume

14

Issue

5

fYear

1988

fDate

5/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

584

Lastpage

594

Abstract

A development environment for horizontal microcode is described that uses percolation scheduling-a transformational system for parallelism extraction-and an interactive profiling system to give the user control over the microcode compaction process while reducing the burdensome details of architecture, correctness preservation, and synchronization. Through a graphical interface, the user suggests what can be executed in parallel, while the system performs the actual changes using semantics-preserving transformations. If a request cannot be satisfied, the system reports the problem causing the failure. The user can then help eliminate the problem by supplying guidance or information not explicit in the code

Keywords

microprogramming; parallel programming; programming environments; scheduling; synchronisation; user interfaces; architecture; correctness preservation; development environment; graphical interface; horizontal microcode; interactive profiling system; microcode compaction process; parallelism extraction; percolation scheduling; semantics-preserving transformations; synchronization; Compaction; Computer science; Control systems; Graphical user interfaces; High level languages; Humans; Information analysis; Parallel processing; Program processors; Reduced instruction set computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.6136

Filename

6136