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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (SBCS Systems Staff)
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Subject: Re: Writable Microcode
Summary: Field configurable gate arrays --> sorta microcode
Message-ID: <1291@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 01:54:36 GMT
References: <2006@sugar.UUCP> <53583@sun.uucp> <2223@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <2223@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, steves@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Steve Schlesinger) writes:
> >> Imagine a version of the microprogrammable chip in which the operating
> >> system could context switch among trusted sets of microprograms.  Weird.
> 
	Not weird at all when you start looking into the latest
	user configurable gate array products from Xilinx, etc.
	These are really nice in that you get to program the
	hardware, etc from either EPROM or from a uP.  I suppose
	you could look at them as sort of writeable picostore :-).

						Rick Spanbauer
						SUNY/Stony Brook