The SYCO Control Section Compiler

This paper describes the SYCO Control Section Compiler (CPC). The SYCO silicon compiler generates microprocessor-like circuits. Each circuit is constitueted of a data path (DP) and a control section (CS) which is a stack of control slices. The SYCO system makes use of the CPC to produce the control section from a high level description. CPC handles an hierarchical control section and involves efficient optimization mechanism. The present version of the CPC generates each control slice using a PLA. The compilation of the algorithmic description of each control slice is composed of three steps: the state table generation, the logic optimization and the PLA generation. CPC is available, the paper indicates the results of the 6502 control section compilation.