TRON Project 1988 -

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Résumé :
The proceedings of the fifth TRON symposium presented here cover all aspects of the TRON project, which aims at establishing the new computer architecture for the 1990s. The papers review the current status of development of TRON as well as its various subprojects and examine future trends. ITRON, BTRON, CTRON, MTRON, and TRON VLSI CPU chips are described. This volume gives an analysis, both generally and in depth, of computer systems of the next decade. The TRON concept aims at the creation of a new and complete environment beneficial to both computer and mankind. It has a very wide scope and great diversity. As it includes the open architecture concept and as the TRON machine should be able to work with various foreign languages, the TRON is targetted to be used internationally. The project's long-term objective is to design and develop the highly functionally distributed system (HFDS). In order to achieve this final goal, design concepts, system architecture, interface definitions, and real implementation methods have been vigorously studied. The core of the TRON computer architecture, the 32-bit VLSI CPU, has been designed and manufactured for sampling. ITRON has been commercialized and has many users now. Prototype systems based on BTRON and CTRON are being implemented. The research on MTRON, i.e. to connect many intelligent objects together in order to build HFDS, has proceeded steadily. One important feature of the TRON architecture is to allow independent and yet compatible implementation of TRON-based systems. The open and accessible interface definitions of various layers of the computer system architecture are very important. One good example of independent, compatible implementation is TRON VLSI CPU. Several manufacturers have separately developed VLSI CPU, and yet these chips assure the operation of the same binary instruction. The interface definitions will be available to the public in accordance with the spirit of the TRON project.

Sommaire:
1: TRON System Architecture.- TRON Universal Language System.- Design of MTRON: Construction of HFDS.- 2: ITRON.- HI8:A Realtime Operating System with ?-ITRON Specification for the H8/500.- MR7700: An Implementation of ?-ITRON Specification on 16-bit Single-Chip Microcontroller.- An Integrated Embedded Systems Software Development Environment for ITRON.- 3: BTRON.- TACL: TRON Application Control-Flow Language.- Natural Language Translation Services in BTRON.- A Study on Video Manager of the BTRON Specification.- The Type Mechanism of the TIPE/L Programming Language.- 4: CTRON.- Perspectives on CTRON.- CTRON Reference Model.- Design of the CTRON Communication Control Interface.- Design of CTRON Execution Control Interface.- Enhancement of the CTRON Kernel Interface.- An Implementation of the CTRON Basic OS.- An Implementation of CTRON Basic OS on a Lap-Top Workstation.- 5: TRONCHIP.- Architectural Features of OKI 32-Bit Microprocessor.- Design Considerations of the Matsushita 32-Bit Microprocessor for Real-Memory Systems.- An Examination of the Fundamental Configuration of the Microprocessor for Virtual Memory Systems.- Implementation and Evaluation of the TRONCHIP Specification for the TX1.- A Floating Point Processing Unit for the Gmicro CPU.- High Performance Bus Interface of Gmicro/300.- A 40 MB/s 32-Bit DMA Controller with 3411 Product Terms PLA.- Development of a C Compiler for Gmicro Micro Processor Based on TRON Architecture.- Development Support System for TX Series.- An Integrated Software Development Toolkit for the GMICRO/200.- List of Contributors.- Keywords Index.