{"title":"Toccata & Fuga: a rule-based system for interactive pipeline design","authors":"I. Exman, E. Perkalski","doi":"10.1109/CMPEUR.1988.4943","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A novel interactive approach to pipeline design is proposed. To convey to the user prompt understanding of both the algorithm and processor functions, it uses a multilayered representation for pipeline entities. The entity repertoire in each layer is small. Guidelines are given to abstract actual processors into these entities. The ground layer of the representation is a resources board. One builds up the pipeline the way one solves jigsaw puzzles: moving around 'boxes' on the board. The computer system controls the design process. Toccata & Fuga, a rule-based system, was implemented along the above lines, in a Lisp machine. To be a practical tool it has the additional feature of automatic board translation to microcode.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":415032,"journal":{"name":"[Proceedings] COMPEURO 88 - System Design: Concepts, Methods and Tools","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[Proceedings] COMPEURO 88 - System Design: Concepts, Methods and Tools","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPEUR.1988.4943","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A novel interactive approach to pipeline design is proposed. To convey to the user prompt understanding of both the algorithm and processor functions, it uses a multilayered representation for pipeline entities. The entity repertoire in each layer is small. Guidelines are given to abstract actual processors into these entities. The ground layer of the representation is a resources board. One builds up the pipeline the way one solves jigsaw puzzles: moving around 'boxes' on the board. The computer system controls the design process. Toccata & Fuga, a rule-based system, was implemented along the above lines, in a Lisp machine. To be a practical tool it has the additional feature of automatic board translation to microcode.<>