Polymorphic programmable units employing plural levels of sub-in

Details Polymorphic programmable units employing plural levels of sub-in Polymorphic programmable units employing plural levels of sub-in

1969-05-19

1985-12-10

Zache, Raulfe B.

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G06F 900

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ABSTRACT:
This disclosure relates to a programmable unit employing plural levels of sub-instruction sets in addition to conventional instruction sets. The conventional level of instruction sets is employed to specify computational routines and other processing algorithms to be carried out by the unit. Each instruction in a conventional set is implemented in the unit by a sequence of first level sub-instructions which specify the various operations to be carried out within the unit which operations are comprised within the specific routine. In turn, the various first level sub-instructions are implemented by second level sub-instructions which specify the various control signals required to set the various gates as required for the particular unit operation to be carried out. With this hierarchy of sub-instruction sets, first level sub-instruction sets may be interchanged dynamically during the operation of the unit to dynamically change the processing capability of the unit. This eliminates the requirement for any special logic circuitry to accommodate particular computational routines and allows the arithmetic logic unit to be designed as multiples of the basic logic unit in accordance with particular desired data path widths. A manner is disclosed by which the interchanging of first level sub-instruction sets provides for placing the unit in different control modes such as input-output control or processing control. A manner is also disclosed by which interchanging of different first level sub-instruction sets accommodates the execution of programs written in different program language forms.

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