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Frequent Contributor"Long ago, I met an engineer that stated they had the license from Intel to modify the microcode."
I met Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny long ago as well. They promised me lots of cool things.
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There is no "the microcode" from Intel. Microcode for which (I assume) processor? "Long ago" might mean 486 or pentium.
Anyway, doubtful any given engineer had an individual license for microcode source from Intel.
It would likely be a company, and in any event be under a very restrictive NDA.
Personally I doubt that "engineer" was being totally honest. Or you misunderstood what he had.
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"Using this, would it be possible to use Intel microcode for a RISC processor, to run / control the design in the programmable devices or SOC's; thereby, eliminating the need for a processor and program memory? Hence, the controller state Machine would use modified microcode to run the programmed logic. "
This makes no sense. RISC processors by design are not microcoded, thus they have no microcode.
Second, microcode is basically just a 'program' that takes the instruction set architecture (ie, like X86) and implements
it on the hardware resources of a given datapath/micro-engine. The input is still an X86 software program that implements
some functionality. So you still need program memory and a program as input.
So overall what you are asking does not make much sense. What is your real end goal?
