CPC: a control section synthesizer

Deals with CPC, the SYCO control section synthesizer. CPC receives a hierarchical high level description of the circuit to be designed. The control section generated by CPC is made up of a stack of control slices. Each one is implemented by a single PLA. For each control slice, CPC performs three steps: (1) state table generation, (2) logic optimization and the completion of implicit jumps, (3) PLA generation. The author shows how the synthesis scheme can depend on the synthesizer intermediate form and the target architecture of the controller generated. The advantage of the CPC, compared to other control section synthesizers, is that the intermediate form is kept in a high level language. And it is well adapted to the target architecture