Maurer computers for pipelined instruction processing

Abstract

We model micro-architectures with non-pipelined instruction processing and pipelined instruction processing, using Maurer machines, basic thread algebra and program algebra. We show that stored programs are executed as intended with these micro-architectures. We believe that this work provides a new mathematical approach to model micro-architectures and to verify their correctness and anticipated speed-up results.

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