Functional memory-based dynamic microprocessors for higher level languages

Abstract

Dynamic microprocessors have been proposed as a means for providing the basic instruction sets necessary for efficient processing of a variety of higher level languages with specific hardware. Functional memory-based dynamic processors consisting of a collection of identical modules formed from writable associative arrays offer a more general solution to this problem. The basic properties of functional memory modules are discussed; and the structure of a functional memory-based microprocessor suitable for executing the SNOBOL 4 replacement statement using the data structures defined by Griswold (15) is given.