SMDSS-a structured microcode development and simulation system

Author

Smati, Djahida ; Hwang, Jerry ; Papachristou, C.

Author_Institution

Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

27-29 Nov 1990

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

259

Abstract

The paper presents a software environment SMDSS for specification, simulation, and design of digital systems based on the concept of modularity in microprogramming. It provides a hardware description language SMDSL, a modular microcode generator, and a functional simulator. Besides the distinction of structural and behavioral parts in a digital system description, the language covers high level structured constructs to facilitate the control sequencing. The microcode generator implementation is based on a previously developed microprogram control architecture which has been improved to enable the presence of structured constructs. The functional simulator is developed to allow testing the design validity

Keywords

development systems; microprogramming; programming environments; specification languages; virtual machines; SMDSL; SMDSS; design validity; digital systems; functional simulator; hardware description language; microprogram control architecture; microprogramming; modular microcode generator; modularity; simulation system; software environment; structured microcode development; Buildings; Computer architecture; Control systems; Decoding; Digital systems; Hardware; Microprogramming; Signal generators; Testing; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microprogramming and Microarchitecture. Micro 23. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Workshop and Symposium., Workshop on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2124-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MICRO.1990.151451

Filename

151451