Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!kushnier@nadc.ARPA From: kushnier@nadc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Need a microprogramming consultant! Message-ID: <8942@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 08:23:34 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8942 Posted: Tue Mar 5 08:23:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 09:11:51 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 17 GIGO As I understand it, Micro-programming is the series of operations that occur within the microprocessor for placing data and address information on busses, or routing data to the Arithmetic logic unit; again within the micro itself. For many processors, this micro-code is burned in and unchangeable. But for some, the processor looks outside the chip for it's micro-code. Micro-programming provides a plethora of architectural techniques such as Pipelining which speed up throughput. Hope that helps a little. Ron Kushnier kushnier@nadc.arpa