MIPT-MIPS 2018 release 3

pavelkryukov released this 07 Feb 09:04

MIPS

Compatibility with basic MARS system calls conventions by Vyacheslav Kompan
Interactive functional simulation mode with GDB by Vyacheslav Kompan
Interface-level integration to cycle-accurate simulation of Nintendo® 64 in CEN64 environment by Pavel Kryukov

Branch prediction

Extraction of branch misprediction unit of Mem unit by Yauheni Sharamed
'Always not taken' branch prediction mode by Yan Logovsky
Bubble sort to demonstrate sensitivity of IPC to branch prediction by Yauheni Sharamed

Quality assurance

Unit tests for MIPS instructions by Vsevolod Pukhov. One bug reported.
Unit test coverage for branch prediction modes by Yan Logovsky. One bug reported.

Code quality

Decoupling functional memory from CPU simulation by Vyacheslav Kompan. Pavel Kryukov, and Arsen Davtyan
Deep refactoring of MIPS decoding code by Andrey Agrachev, Vsevolod Pukhov and Pavel Kryukov
Narrow-safe type conversion by Arsen Davtyan
Endian-wrapping infrastructure by Pavel Kryukov
Lazy dumping mode by Pavel Kryukov

New manuals:

„Implementation of Data Bypassing and Scoreboard“ by Denis Los
„How to debug MIPT-MIPS with GDB“ by Ivan Startsev (in progress)

External PRs:

Assets 2