A Pipelined Multi-Core Machine with Operating System Support
Hardware Implementation and Correctness Proof
Samenvatting
This work is building on results from the book named “A Pipelined Multi-core MIPS Machine: Hardware Implementation and Correctness” by M. Kovalev, S.M. Müller, and W.J. Paul, published as LNCS 9000 in 2014.
It presents, at the gate level, construction and correctness proof of a multi-core machine with pipelined processors and extensive operating system support with the following features:
• MIPS instruction set architecture (ISA) for application and for system programming
• cache coherent memory system
• store buffers in front of the data caches
• interrupts and exceptions
• memory management units (MMUs)
• pipelined processors: the classical five-stage pipeline is extended by two pipeline
stages for address translation
• local interrupt controller (ICs) supporting inter-processor interrupts (IPIs)
• I/O-interrupt controller and a disk