Design investigation of microprogrammable emulator architecture in distributed computer systems

Author

Deltchev, Nedeltcho ; Iliev, Rumen ; Grantcharov, Alexander

Author_Institution

RCSRC-BAS, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

fYear

1992

fDate

4-8 May 1992

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

162

Abstract

The basic concepts are given of microprogrammable processor emulation in distributed systems used as intelligent node machines in computer networks. The primary purposes of this design investigation are to emulate the processor prototype instruction set of a 16-b prototype IBM 8140 with the basic aim of increasing its performance and to demonstrate the use of microprogrammable bit-slices based on the bipolar microprocessor family Am2900. The goal of the investigation is pure processor emulation without the overall configuration of the terminal station. The objective is to obtain a satisfactory decision, i.e., an optimum balance between the application hardware and the operations execution speed.<>

Keywords

computer communications software; computer networks; instruction sets; microprogramming; 16-b prototype IBM 8140; application hardware; bipolar microprocessor family Am2900; computer networks; design investigation; distributed systems; intelligent node machines; microprogrammable bit-slices; microprogrammable processor emulation; operations execution speed; optimum balance; processor prototype instruction set; pure processor emulation; satisfactory decision; terminal station; Bismuth; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Emulation; Hardware; Intelligent systems; Prototypes; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

CompEuro '92 . 'Computer Systems and Software Engineering',Proceedings.

Conference_Location

The Hague, Netherlands

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2760-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPEUR.1992.218517

Filename

218517