A graduate computer engineering laboratory that supports a one-quarter microprogramming course is described in this paper. The new features of this laboratory include an inexpensive 16-bit microprogrammable computer board with writable control store and advanced microcode debugging support, a relocatable macro meta assembler, and a network of personal computers.
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