Firmware engineering and microprogramming research at Colorado State University

Most of the firmware engineering research currently under investigation at CSU is focused on methods of automated microcode generation and compaction, particularly retargetable methods. We have developed a prototype for a retargetable microcode compiler, which is depicted in Figure 1. Ideally, the system shown is retargeted by supplying a flow graph machine model for the target machine, and the remainder of the system is invariant.