MICRO-18 Advanced Program
Will Tracz
Micro18: The 18th Annual Microprogramming Workshop
Sponsored by ACM SIGMICRO and IEEE-CS TC-MICRO in cooperation with EUROMICRO
Micro18 - Preliminary Schedule
Monday - December 2
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Dinner
Tuesday - December 3
7:30 am - 9:00 am - Breakfast
8:00 am - Late Registration
9:00 am - 4:00 pm - Tutorials
Morning session - "Fundamentals of Microprogramming" - Mike Eager
Afternoon session - "Example Design of a Microprogrammed System" - Jack Walicki
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Microprogramming War Stories - Will Tracz, chair
4:00 pm - 5K Run
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Banquet and Tour, Monterey Aquarium
Wednesday - December 4
7:30 am - 9:00 am - Breakfast
8:00 am - Late Registration
9:00 am - 9:15 am - Welcome
Rich Belgard, Conference Chair
Scott Davidson, Program Chair
Georold Johnson, ACM SIGMicro chair
Joe Linn, IEEE TC-Micro chair
9:15 am - 10:15 am - Keynote Address - Glen Langdon, IBM
Title - "Will Microcode Make RISC Machines Obsolete?"
10:15 - 10:30 am - Break
10:30 am - 12:00 - Architectures and Architecture Synthesis - Rich Belgard, chair
"Stepwise Design of Microprogrammed Computer Architectures"
Werner Damm, Lehrstuhl fur Informatik
"Efficient Hardware for Multi-way Jumps and Pre-fetches"
Alex Nicolau and Kevin Karpus, Cornell University
"A Microprogrammable Architecture with Quasi Time-Transparent Structured Control"
Marek S. Tudruj and R.F. Gajda, Polish Academy of Sciences
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm - Microprogrammable Architecture Panel - Robert Mueller, chair
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm - 5:15 pm - Microcode Tools - Stan Habib, chair
"An Interactive Diagnostic/Debugging Aid for Bit-Slice Processors,"
Forbes J. Burkowski, University of Waterloo
"A Practical Approach to the Evaluation of Microcode Systems,"
Robert E. Skibbe, IBM
"Advances in Microcode Support Software,"
William J. Tracz, IBM
"Verification of Microprogrammed Computer Architectures in the S* System - A Case
Study,"
Werner Damm and Gert Dohmen, Lehrstuhl fur Informatik
6:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Microprogramming Shootout and Social - Will Tracz, moderator
10:00 pm - SIGMicro and TC-Micro Meetings
Thursday, December 5
7:30 am - 9:00 am - Breakfast
8:00 am - Late Registration
9:00 am - 10:30 am - Prolog and Microarchitectures - Yale Patt, chair
"Compiling Prolog into Microcode, a Case Study using the NCR 9300"
Barry Fagin, Yale Patt, Vason Srini, and Alvin Despain, University of
California at Berkeley
"Microarchitecture of the Hardware Unification Unit"
Nam Sung Woo, AT&T Bell Laboratories
"Implementation Implications for Logic Programming," (Presentation only),
Bill Hopkins, SDC
10:30 am - 11:00 am - Break
11:00 am - 12:00 - Data Flow Architectures - Bill Hopkins, chair
"Critical Issues regarding HPS I, a Restricted Data Flow Microarchitecture for
High Performance Computing,"
Yale Patt, Wen-mei Hwu, Mike Shebanow, and Steve Melvin, University of California
at Berkeley
"Hardware Acceleration of Logic Simulation using a Data Flow Microarchitecture,"
Bill Paseman and Gary Catlin, Daisy Systems Corporation
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm - Vertical Migration Panel - Mike Carter, chair
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Break
3:15 pm - 5:15 pm - Microprogramming Language Issues - Subrata Dasgupta, chair
"The Design of an Interactive Compiler for Optimizing Microprograms,"
Steve Vegdahl, Tektronix
"Micro-C, Experiments in High Level Firmware Generation Techniques,"
Wiliam Hopkins, Michael Horton, and Clarke Arnold, SDC.
"Microcode Development for Microprogrammed Processors"
Jerry P.-C. Hwang, Phoenix Data Systems, Inc.
Christos A. Papachristou, Case Western Reserve University
and Danny Cornett, University of Cincinnati
"MDT - Microprogram Design Tool: METASTEP Language System,"
Darrell Wilburn and Stephen Schleimer, STEP Engineering
6:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Microarchitecture and the Law: Patents, Copyrights, etc. - Yale Patt, chair
Friday - December 6
7:30 am - 8:45 am - Breakfast
8:45 am - 10:15 am - Panel - Automated System Level Computer Aided Design
- Robert Winner, chair
10:15 am - 10:30 am - Break
10:30 am - 12:00 - Compaction and Sequencers - Scott Davidson, chair
"Some Experiments in Global Microcode Compaction,"
Bogong Su and Shiyuan Ding, Tsinghua University
"JAM - Just Another Microsequencer"
William J. Tracz, IBM, and Brian Boesch, Stanford University
"A Customized Control Store Design in Microprogrammed Control Units"
Marek S. Tudruj, Polish Academy of Sciences
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 pm - Conference Adjourns
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