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The actual output of microcode disassembly is just a text file - a line of code for each microcode word, in essentially a a new dialect - a type of static assembly language. reenigne had to invent names for a lot of things, that will now become the official names of these things, unless Intel ever decides to speak up and make corrections.

That language can then be translated into Verilog, and has been.



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