A code generator for an application specific pipelined processor

The paper presents a system to generate and compact microcode for an application specific pipelined processor. The front end is based on the GNU C compiler, and translates a C source file into pseudo assembly code. A scheduler organizes the assembly instructions and generates the final compacted microcode. Although not as efficient as hand-written code, it allows the use of a high level programming language to generate machine code for this processor, and to experiment with new algorithms to map onto the special processor's architecture.<>