Generation of Hardware Machine Models from Instruction Set Descriptions
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چکیده
This paper describes how a modular machine description, which specifies the functionality and the binary representation of an instruction set, can be transformed into a hardware model. This model is built from few generic hardware entities (registers, memories, arithmetic/logic operators, selectors and connections) and may eventually serve as an input to high-level hardware synthesis tools. The transformation steps on the way from the machine description to the hardware model are explained by giving an example.
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