Following the software crisis, a firmware crisis has occurred.
Since too much man-power and time is needed to develop microprograms, the ones already produced like software have to be used as long as possible.
This paper describes a general purpose microprogram conversion tool which is one of the methods used to reduce the man-power and time required for microprogram development and examples of the execution results obtained using this tool.
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