• DocumentCode
    1728546
  • Title

    Motorola PowerPC Migration Tools-emulation and translation

  • Author

    Afzal, T. ; Breternitz, M. ; Kacher, M. ; Menyhert, S. ; Ommerman, M. ; Su, W.

  • Author_Institution
    RISC Software Div., Motorola Inc., Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    1996
  • Firstpage
    145
  • Lastpage
    150
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the Motorola PowerPC Migration Tools project. The development methodology emphasizes code reuse. Emulation and translation methods are described and characterized. Emulation is applied to ROM-based environments. Translation achieves higher performance by having access to source code.
  • Keywords
    program interpreters; software reusability; software tools; Motorola PowerPC Migration Tools; ROM-based environments; code reuse; emulation; translation; Application software; Assembly; Computer architecture; Data structures; Emulation; Operating systems; Optimizing compilers; Power generation; Read only memory; Runtime;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Compcon '96. 'Technologies for the Information Superhighway' Digest of Papers
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    1063-6390
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7414-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501761
  • Filename
    501761