gem5 Tutorial

Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Getting started with gem5
  • Building gem5
  • Creating a simple configuration script
  • Adding cache to the configuration script
  • Understanding gem5 statistics and output
  • Using the default configuration scripts
• Part II: Modifying and extending gem5
  • Setting up your development environment
  • Creating a very simple SimObject
  • Debugging gem5
  • Event-driven programming
  • Adding parameters to SimObjects and more events
  • Creating SimObjects in the memory system
  • Creating a simple cache object
• Part III: Modeling cache coherence with Ruby
  • Introduction to Ruby
  • MSI example cache protocol
  • Declaring a state machine
  • In port code blocks
  • Action code blocks
  • Transition code blocks
  • MSI Directory implementation
  • Compiling a SLICC protocol
  • Configuring a simple Ruby system
  • Running the simple Ruby system
  • Debugging SLICC Protocols
  • Configuring for a standard protocol
• Part V: Full System Simulation
  • gem5 Full System Simulation
  • Full system configuration files
• Some thoughts on this document
  • Todo list
• Acknowledgements

Notes for presentations

• Part I: Getting started with gem5
• Part II: Modifying and extending gem5
• Part III: Ruby
• Part IV: CPU models

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page