Pipelined Multi-core MIPS Machine

Hardware Implementation and Correctness Proof

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Mikhail Kovalev, Silvia M. Müller, Wolfgang J. Paul, Silvia M. Muller

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It contains a gate level construction of a multi-core machine with pipelined MIPS processor cores and a sequentially consistent shared memory.The book contains the first correctness proofs for both the gate level implementation of a multi-core processor and also of a cache based sequentially consistent shared memory.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-12-01
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt552 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLecture Notes in Computer Science
Antal sidor352
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319139050

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Introduction.- Motivation.- Overview.- Number Formats and Boolean Algebra.- Basics.- Numbers, Sets and Logical Connectives.- Sequences and Bit-Strings.- Modulo Computation.- Geometric Sums.- Binary Numbers.- Two’s Complement Numbers.- Boolean Algebra.- Identities.- Solving Equations.- Disjunctive Normal Form.- Hardware.- Digital Gates and Circuits.- Some Basic Circuits.- Clocked Circuits.- Digital Clocked Circuits.- The Detailed Hardware Model.- Timing Analysis.- Registers.- Drivers and Main Memory.- Open Collector Drivers and Active Low Signal.- Tristate Drivers and Bus Contention.- The Incomplete Digital Model for Drivers.- Self Destructing Hardware.- Clean Operation of Tristate Buses.- Specification of Main Memory.- Operation of Main Memory via a Tristate Bus.- Finite State Transducers.- Realization of Moore Automata.- Precomputing Outputs of Moore Automata.- Realization of Mealy Automata.- Precomputing Outputs of Mealy Automata.- Nine Shades of RAM.- Basic Random Access Memory.- Single-Port RAM Designs.- Read Only Memory (ROM).- Multi-bank RAM.- Cache State RAM.- SPR RAM.- Multi-port RAM Designs.- 3-port RAM for General Purpose Registers.- General 2-port RAM.- 2-port Multi-bank RAM-ROM.- 2-port Cache State RAM.- Arithmetic Circuits.- Adder and Incrementer.- Arithmetic Unit.- Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU).- Shift Unit.- Branch Condition Evaluation Unit.- A Basic Sequential MIPS Machine.- Tables.- I-type.- R-type.- J-type.- MIPS ISA.- Configuration and Instruction Fields.- Instruction Decoding.- ALU-Operations.- Shift Unit Operations.- Branch and Jump.- Sequences of Consecutive Memory Bytes.- Loads and Stores.- ISA Summary.- A Sequential Processor Design.- Software Conditions.- Hardware Configurations and Computations.- Memory Embedding.- Defining Correctness for the Processor Design.- Stages of Instruction Execution.- Initialization.- Instruction Fetch.- Instruction Decoder.- Reading from General Purpose Registers.- Next PC Environment.- ALU Environment.-Shift Unit Environment.- Jump and Link.- Collecting Results.- Effective Address.- Shift for Store Environment.- Memory Stage.- Shifter for Load.- Writing to the General Purpose Register File.- Pipelining.-MIPS ISA and Basic Implementation Revisited.- Delayed PC.- Implementing the Delayed PC.- Pipeline Stages and Visible Registers.- Basic Pipelined Processor Design.- Transforming the Sequential Design.- Scheduling Functions.- Use of Invisible Registers.- Software Condition SC-1.- Correctness Statement.- Correctness Proof of the Basic Pipelined Design.- Forwarding.- Hits.- Forwarding Circuits.- Software Condition SC-2.- Scheduling Functions Revisited.- Correctness Proof.- Stalling Stall Engine.- Hazard Signals.- Correctness Statement.- Scheduling Functions.- Correctness Proof.- Liveness.- Caches and Shared Memory.- Concrete and Abstract Caches.- Abstract Caches and Cache Coherence.- Direct Mapped Caches.- k-way Associative Caches.- Fully Associative Caches.- Notation.- Parameters.- Memory and Memory Systems.- Accesses and Access Sequences.- Sequential Memory Semantics.- Sequentially Consistent Memory Systems.- Memory System Hardware Configurations.- Atomic MOESI Protocol.- Invariants.- Defining the Protocol by Tables.- Translating the Tables into Switching Functions.- Algebraic Specification.- Properties of the Atomic Protocol.- Gate Level Design of a Shared Memory System.- Specification of Interfaces.- Data Paths of Caches.- Cache Protocol Automata.- Automata Transitions and Control Signals.- Bus Arbiter.- Initialization.- Correctness Proof.- Arbitration.- Silent Slaves and Silent Masters.- Automata Synchronization.- Control of Tristate Drivers.- Protocol Data Transmission.- Data Transmission.- Accesses of the Hardware Computation.- Relation with the Atomic Protocol.- Ordering Hardware Accesses Sequentially.- Sequential Consistency.- Liveness.- A Multi-core Processor.- Compare-and-Swap Instruction.- Introducing CAS to the ISA.- Introducing CAS to the Sequential Processor.- Multi-core ISA and Reference Implementation.- Multi-core ISA Specification.- Sequential Reference Implementation.- Simulation Relation.- Local Configurations and Computations.- Accesses of the Reference Computation.- Shared Memory in the Multi-core System.- Notation.- Invisible Registers and Hazard Signals.- Connecting Interfaces.- Stability of Inputs of Accesses.- Relating Update Enable Signals and Ends of Accesses.- Scheduling Functions.- Stepping Function.- Correctness Proof.- Liveness.- References.- Index.