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The [[Data General Eclipse MV/8000]] ("Eagle") has a SRAM writable control store, loaded on power-on through another CPU.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mark Smotherman|title=CPSC 330 / The Soul of a New Machine|url=http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/330/eagle.html|quote=4096 x 75-bit SRAM writeable control store: 74-bit microinstruction with 1 parity bit (18 fields)}}</ref>
WCS offers several advantages including the ease of patching the microprogram and, for certain hardware generations, faster access than ROMs could provide. User-programmable WCS allow the user to optimize the machine for specific purposes. However, it also
Some CPU designs compile the instruction set to a writable [[RAM]] or [[Flash memory|FLASH]] inside the CPU (such as the [[Rekursiv]] processor and the [[Imsys]] [[Cjip]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpushack.com/CPU/cpu7.html |title=Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (V 13.4.0) |publisher=Cpushack.com |access-date=2010-04-26}}</ref> or an FPGA ([[reconfigurable computing]]).
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