Jelly have a pipeline of 16 cycles, to coordenate by enable or disable the tape controlers, and define actions as, move forward or backward, perform  read or write, also command increase or decrease tape bytes. All that is made by control signals, then microcode is a state of signals.

For easy Jelly have one signal for each control and all microcode, the states of signals, are stored into eeproms.

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