Title
2n-way jump microinstruction hardware and an effective instruction binding method.
Abstract
A scheme is developed by which multiway microprogram jumps may be made to any of 2n next possible microinstructions as a function of any selection of n 1 logically independent tests. An efficient method of binding microinstructions to memory locations allows this to be done at very low cost, both in terms of speed and hardware. Independent simultaneous tests are a necessity if horizontally microcodable machines are to continue to get wider, since algorithms presumably have fixed operations/tests ratios. This scheme will give parallelizers for such machines maximum flexibility in rearranging flow control.
Year
DOI
Venue
1980
10.1145/1014190.802713
ACM Sigmicro Newsletter
Keywords
Field
DocType
binding method,independent simultaneous test,microinstruction hardware,next possible microinstructions,tests ratio,independent test,machines maximum flexibility,binding microinstructions,effective instruction,efficient method,memory location,microcodable machine,low cost
Computer science,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Flow control (data),Computer hardware,Jump
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
3-4
1050-916X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-89791-172-6
11
4.62
References 
Authors
5
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
joseph a fisher11410264.50