Processor Description Languages

7.3 ADL in ASIP Meister 171

FIGURE 7.5

Main window of ASIP Meister.

7.3.2 Specification Entry Using GUI

Designers enter the specification of their target processor using GUI inASIP Meister.

Fig. 7.5 shows a snapshot of the main window of ASIP Meister. From this window,

designers invoke a subwindow corresponding to each design step shown in Fig. 7.2.

For instance, the window shown in Fig. 7.6 is a subwindow for the design step

of instruction type and instruction definition. In this window, designers declare

instruction types and then define instructions der ived from the instruction type.

As discussed earlier, since the GUI clarifies the required fields and ...