Low level visual programming

Author

Beaumont, Mark ; Jackson, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Liverpool Univ., UK

fYear

1997

fDate

23-26 Sep 1997

Firstpage

410

Lastpage

417

Abstract

There is a current trend in the visual programming community towards the visualisation of high level programming constructs and techniques. There seems to be no reason, however, why low level programming should not also benefit from the advantages to be gained from visual representation. We, therefore, have investigated the feasibility and possible application of visual programming techniques to low level operations. The paper presents a set of visual constructs that can be combined to represent low level instructions. It goes on to show how these visualisations have been used within a prototype system that enables a real processor (the Motorola 68000) to be visually programmed

Keywords

machine oriented languages; microprogramming; visual programming; Motorola 68000; high level programming constructs; low level instructions; low level operations; low level visual programming; prototype system; real processor; visual constructs; visual programming community; visual representation; visualisation; Assembly; Computer science; Hardware; High level languages; Optimizing compilers; Programming profession; Prototypes; Software tools; Visualization; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1997. Proceedings. 1997 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Isle of Capri

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8144-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1997.626612

Filename

626612