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Writingmicrocodeis often called microprogramming and themicrocodein a particular processor implementation is sometimes called a microprogram.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In coordination with the hardware, themicrocodeimplements the programmer-visible architecture.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It had the side effect of making the benefits of that work available on modern processors lacking amicrocodefacility.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In some cases, only the simple operations may be implemented in hardware ormicrocode, while the more complex operations are implemented as software.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is similar to use ofmicrocodeto achieve compatibility across a processor family.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Four revisions of the chip exist, each physically identical but with differentmicrocode.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is thus somewhere between the role ofmicrocodeand of a hardware emulator.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These properties and features resulted in a hardware andmicrocodedesign that was much more complex than most processors of the era, especially microprocessors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There were three custom boards for move generation, four custom boards for position evaluation, and one board with custommicrocodewhich controlled the whole thing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Themicrocodealone was responsible for storage allocation, deallocation and garbage collection.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is programmable throughmicrocode, allowing the chip's functions to be significantly altered if necessary, to allow for different types of work, precision, and workloads.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some verticalmicrocodeis just the assembly language of a simple conventional computer that is emulating a more complex computer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is controlled bymicrocodefrom a 1,600-word control store with the capability to patch 20 words.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If a given computer implementation supports a writeable control store, the microassembler is usually provided to customers as a means of writing customizedmicrocode.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At some point the model 815 was introduced with the delayedmicrocodeand the fastermicrocodewas restored to the model 825.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.High level machine instructions, made possible bymicrocode, helped further, as fewer more complex machine instructions require less memory bandwidth.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Themicrocodeusually does not reside in the main memory, but in a special high speed memory, called the control store.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The control store holding the micro instruction set (commonly referred asmicrocode) comprises 1024 micro instructions words each 49-bit wide.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It consists of a very simple control unit that runsmicrocodefrom a 512-words store.
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