RESEARCH STUDY OF LOGIC DESIGN TRANSLATOR TECHNIQUES.
Abstract
During the contract there were three distinct areas of work on the Logic Design Translator (LDT). A section of this report is devoted to each of these areas. Section 2 reports how the programs for the LDT in existence at the initiation of this contract have been maintained. This maintenance included both small corrections and minor improvements to the programs. Section 3 reports how two fundamental extensions to the LDT programs were developed and other possibilities studied. A library facility has been programmed to operate with a revised version of the LDT. A simulator to operate at the register level from the design tables of the LDT has been specified. The four other possible extensions studied, but not incorporated into the LDT, were diagnostic procedures based upon LDT tables, new ways for the designer to specify the control of microsequences, alternative timing algorithms for the LDT programs, and a way to choose the most economical implementation of a system. Section 4 reports how the LDT programs were translated from the existing version in BALGOL for the 220 into ALGOL '60 for the 1604A and ALGOL for the Burroughs B5500. Section 5 contains the conclusions of this study and recommends areas for extension of the LDT. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0634508