A retargetable microcode generation system for a high-level microprogramming language

Abstract

A system for the generation of microcode from a high-level microprogramming language is presented. The system is independent of the target machine because it is table-driven by a separate hardware declaration. It is applicable for horizontally microprogrammed machines.

Retargetable Compiler Technology for Embedded Systems

“…It is clearly oriented towards synthesis [34] and -except for early versions -is based on PASCAL. The first version of the retargetable compiler was called MSSV [28,29] (the more recent MSSQ is described in section 5.4.1). MSSV-just like Horizon -performed code selection by trying to find paths form source to sink resources in the micro-architecture.…”