A Pipelined Multi-Core Machine with Operating System Support: Hardware Implementation and Correctness Proof (2020)Paperback - 2020, 10 May 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. 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