Ethereum EVM illustrated

This is an illustrated document about the EVM(Ethereum Virtual Machine).

Here is: Ethereum EVM illustrated (PDF).

Contents

1 Introduction

• Blockchain
• World state
• Account
• Transaction
• Message
• Decentralised database
• Atomicity and order

2 Virtual machine

• Ethereum virtual machine (EVM)
• Message call
• Exception
• Gas and fee
• Input and output
• Byte order
• Instruction set
• Miscellaneous

Appendix A : Implementation

• Source code in Geth
• EVM developer utility
• Solidity ABI

Appendix B : User interface

• Web3 API
• Geth, Mist, Solc, Remix, Truffle, ...

References