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Why another High Level Language!
What makes a high level language suitable or desirable as a code generating tool for a microprocessor design? The
following is an outline of some of the more important features that make a high level language useful as a code
generation tool.
FITS TEAM DESIGN METHODOLOGY
1. Modularity
2. Self Documenting
o Obvious language - Not Convoluted
3. Support Structured methodology
ADAPTS TO A \VIDE RANGE OF APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS
1. Robust Environment Support
2. Prototype I/O Does Not Require Extensive Coding Support
3. Development System I/O supported
4. Easy to configure to prototype memory configuration
5.
Easy to configure to prototype i/o configuration
6. Interrupt structure support
ADAPTS TO ~lIXED METHODS OF CODE GENERATION
1. Easy to combine with assembly language generated code
2. Easy to combine with custom libraries
3. High level
language generated code can call asm. level generated code
4. Assembler generated code can call high level language generated code
EASY LANGUAGE IMPLE~1ENTATION
1. Fundamentals of the language are well understood
2. Extensions are easy to learn
3. Dual Language programming interface
4. Recursion supported
5. Function and procedure calls
6. Effective code execution control
o For
o While do and do while
o
repeat until
o case
o
If then else
EFFECTIVE USE OF CHIP RESOURCES
1. Optimization
2. Only required library elements loaded
3. Library Source supplied for implementation optimization
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