Microprogram (8419 bytes)
1: ...it resides is called a [[control store]]. Complex microprograms were typical of [[mainframe computer]]s, such as...
7: A microprogram provides the bits to control these. The fundamen...
25: ...fully), and allows much more freedom to debug the microprogram.
74: After the microprogram is finalized, and extensively tested, it is somet...
81: ...instruction, one clock cycle for each step in the microprogram for that instruction. Some [[CISC]] processors in...

Microassembler (645 bytes)
1: ...ntrol unit]] of a [[computer]]. It generates a [[microprogram]] from text written by a programmer. It is often ...
2: The microprogram is then loaded to a [[control store]] to become o...

Control unit (965 bytes)
3: ...t is stored in a [[control store]]. Words of the microprogram are selected by a [[microsequencer]] and the bits...

Instruction register (266 bytes)
1: ...]s of the instruction register are decoded by a [[microprogram]] that controls the [[computer]].

Memory data register (447 bytes)
3: ...gister is half of a minimal interface between a [[microprogram]] and [[computer storage]]. The other half is a ...

Memory address register (445 bytes)
3: ...gister is half of a minimal interface between a [[microprogram]] and [[computer storage]]. The other half is a ...

FIRMWARE (883 bytes)
12: *[[Microprogram]]

Microsequencer (1015 bytes)
1: ...enerates the addresses used to step through the [[microprogram]] of a [[control store]]. Usually the addresses ...

Firmware (1154 bytes)
12: *[[Microprogram]]

Control store (1560 bytes)
1: ...|CPU]]'s [[control unit]] that stores the CPU's [[microprogram]]. It is usually accessed by a [[microsequencer]...
3: ...cess memory. This permitted IBM to easily repair microprogramming defects in the field.

AP-101 (2014 bytes)
3: ...]] [[processor register|registers]], and uses a [[microprogram]] to define an [[instruction set]] of 154 instruc...

HP 2100 (2159 bytes)
23: ..., [[microprogram]]med CPU. An option allowed user microprogramming.

Execution (computers) (2994 bytes)
9: ...ocessors, actually interpreted by a [[microcode | microprogram]] running inside the processor, on the ''real'' h...

List of computer programming terms (3841 bytes)
53: ...ftware macro|macro]] -- [[microinstruction]] -- [[microprogram]] -- [[monitor]] -- [[multitasking]]

Motorola 6809 (4931 bytes)
10: ...ent until the 1990s), rather than written using [[microprogram|microcode]] (a typical [[CISC]] trait). This mean...

Maurice Vincent Wilkes (7439 bytes)
17: ...This concept greatly simplified CPU development. Microprogramming was first described at the Manchester Univers...

Simulation (7309 bytes)
49: ...example, simulators are usually used to debug a [[microprogram]]. Since the operation of the computer is simulat...

PDP-10 (6389 bytes)
5: ...ormance KL10, which was built from [[ECL]], was [[microprogram]]med, and had [[CPU cache|cache]] memory. A small...

Symbolics (14542 bytes)
21: The original 3600 processor was a [[microprogram]]med design like the CADR, and was built on sever...
41: ...nd disk space became cheaper. Unlike the 3600's [[microprogram]]med architecture, the Ivory instruction set was ...

Branch predictor (15067 bytes)
9: ...nt instruction has been executed. Many earlier [[microprogram]]med CPUs did not do branch prediction because th...
221: Microprogrammed processors took multiple cycles per instructio...
223: microprogrammed and pipelined, and probably did some branch

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