Coreblocks

• Introduction
  • Documentation
• List of assumptions made during development
• Development environment
  • Setting up
  • Using scripts
    • run_tests.py
    • lint.sh
    • core_graph.py
    • build_docs.sh
    • tprof.py
• Documentation for Coreblocks transaction framework
  • Introduction
  • Basic usage
    • Implementing transactions
    • Implementing methods
    • Method or transaction?
    • Method argument passing conventions
    • Method definition conventions
    • Method return value conventions
    • Readiness signals
  • The library
  • Advanced concepts
    • Special combinational domains
    • Scheduling order
    • Conflicts
    • Transaction and method nesting
• Scheduler overview
  • Description
  • Schema
  • Structure
  • More detailed description of each block
• Proposition of Reservation Station implementation
  • Internal data
    • Actual Reservation Station
    • Used slots table
  • Internal methods
    • Compare and substitute
    • Read row
    • Clean row
    • Get free slot
    • Mark slot as used
  • Proposition of implementation of external interfaces
    • Get slot and mark as used
    • Compare and substitute all
    • Read and clean row
• Reservation Station
  • Overview
    • Reset / Initial state
  • External interface methods
    • Get slot and mark as used
    • Insert new instruction
    • Get ready vector
    • Read and clean row
    • Compare and substitute all
  • External interface signals
• Full transaction-method graph
• Problem checklist
• Core verification
  • Synthesis
    • Manual reproduction
    • Dependencies
  • Benchmarking
    • Benchmarks manual execution
  • Regression tests
    • Regression tests manual execution
• Instruction Cache
  • Interface
  • Assumptions
  • Address mapping example
• Summary of papers about interrupts
  • Introduction
  • Interrupt handling in old PCs
  • Interrupt Handling for Out-of-Order Execution Processors
  • In-Line Interrupt Handling for Software-Managed TLBs
  • Hardware/software cost analysis of interrupt processing strategies:
  • iGPU: Exception Support and Speculative Execution on GPUs
  • Efficient Exception Handling Support for GPUs
  • Others
  • Summary
• API
  • coreblocks
    • coreblocks package
  • transactron
    • transactron package