Generating production quality software development tools using a machine description language
Andreas Hoffmann, Achim Nohl, Stefan Pees, Gunnar Braun, H. Meyr · 2001
This paper presents a methodology to automatically gen-erate production quality software development tools for programmable architectures using the machine description language LISA. Various architectures presenting diverse architectural originalities will be presented and the feasibil-ity of automatically generating simulator, assembler, linker and graphical debugger frontend will be discussed. The presented approach is not limited to a fixed abstraction level – case studies of the Texas Instruments C62x and C54x, the Analog Devices ADSP2101 as well as the ARM7 will show the applicability of the methodology from cycle/phase to in-struction accurate models. 1