Performance Optimization of the PASCAL to DEC VAX 11/780 Microcode Compiler.

Abstract

Previous research activity at The George Washington University has demonstrated the feasibility of designing a compiler which accepts a high level (programming) language (HLL) and produces microcode for a computer with a horizontal control word format. On going research activity described herein is demonstrating the feasibility of designing a compiler with PASCAL as an input HLL that can generate microcode for the DEC VAX 11/780 computer which is installed in the BMDATC Distributed Data Processing (DDP) Test Bed. The effort described has as its goal the installation of this compiler at the Test Bed and to interface with the 'User Microprogramming' support software provided by DEC. Additional tasks include optimizing the performance of the compiler and conducting a study of the interface between compiler generated microcode and CPU architectures. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 18, 1980
Accession Number
ADA089424

Entities

People

  • R. E. Merwin

Organizations

  • George Washington University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly Languages
  • Compilers
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Machine Languages
  • Microcode
  • Microprogramming
  • Object Code
  • Operating Systems
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • Test Beds

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.