A Pipelined Multi-Core Machine with Operating System Support - Hardware Implementation and Correctness Proof (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)

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. Muller, 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