Generation of hardware machine models from instruction set descriptions
Andreas Fauth, Markus Freericks, Alois Knoll · 2002
The authors describe how a modular machine description, which specifies the functionality and the binary representation of an instruction set, can be transformed into a hardware model. This model is built from new generic hardware entities (registers, memories, arithmetic/logic operators, selectors and connections) and may eventually serve as an input to high-level hardware synthesis tools. The transformation steps on the way from the machine description to the hardware model are explained by giving an example.>