Fiscal Year:
1984
Title:
SYSTEMS
Agency / Branch:
DOD / USAF
Contract:
N/A
Award Amount:
$41,959.00
Abstract:
THE MAJOR PROBLEM WITH USING MACHINE-INDEPENDENT MICROPROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS EFFECTIVE MACHINE TARGETING. A MICROCODE COMPILER IS DESIRABLE WHICH EASILY DIRECTS THE CODE GENERATOR OF A HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR IS DISTINCT MICROPROGRAMMABLE MACHINES. IT IS PROPOSED TO STUDY THE PARTITIOING OF THE MICROCODE GENERATION PORTION OF THE TRANSLATOR INTO TWO SEPARATE BUT RELATED COMPONENTS: A MACHINE-INDEPENDENT MICROCODE GENERATION AI ALGORITHM THAT USES PRE-COMPUTED, MACHINE-DEPENDENT TEMPLATES TO MAP INTERMEDIATE LANGUATE CONSTRUCTS TO MICRO-OPERATIONS, AND A MICROCODE ALGORITHM THAT AUTOMATICALLYCOMPUTES THE MACHINE-DEPENDENT TEMPLATES DIRECTLY FROM A MICRO MACHINE DESCRIPTION. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH SEEK TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING MACHINE-INDEPENDENT MICROCODE GENERATION METHODS IN A RETARGETABLE MICROCODE COMPILER FOR HIGHLY HORIZONTAL ARCHITECTURES, PARTICULARLY VLSI AND VHSIC SIGNAL PROCESSING MICROARCHITECTURES DESCRIBED IN THE VHSIC-VHDL.
Principal Investigator:
Michael andrews
3034849903
Business Contact:
Small Business Information at Submission:
Space Tech Corpon
2324 Manchester Court Fort Collins, CO 80526
EIN/Tax ID:
DUNS:
N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned:
No
Minority-Owned:
No
HUBZone-Owned:
No