David A. Wood, Susan J. Eggers and Garth A. Gibson

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-88-394
January 1988

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1988/CSD-88-394.pdf

This document describes the memory system architecture of the SPUR workstation. SPUR is a bus-based multiprocessor, with caches to reduce each processor's bandwidth requirement. A hardware cache coherency protocol maintains a consistent image of memory across all the caches. A novel address translation scheme eliminates the need for translation buffers.

This document is intended as a reference for system and diagnostic programmers. It describes the cache coherency protocol, address translation algorithm, and exception handling mechanisms in detail.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Wood:CSD-88-394,
    Author = {Wood, David A. and Eggers, Susan J. and Gibson, Garth A.},
    Title = {SPUR Memory System Architecture},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1988},
    Month = {Jan},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1988/5856.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-88-394},
    Abstract = {This document describes the memory system architecture of the SPUR workstation. SPUR is a bus-based multiprocessor, with caches to reduce each processor's bandwidth requirement. A hardware cache coherency protocol maintains a consistent image of memory across all the caches. A novel address translation scheme eliminates the need for translation buffers. <p>This document is intended as a reference for system and diagnostic programmers. It describes the cache coherency protocol, address translation algorithm, and exception handling mechanisms in detail.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Wood, David A.
%A Eggers, Susan J.
%A Gibson, Garth A.
%T SPUR Memory System Architecture
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1988
%@ UCB/CSD-88-394
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1988/5856.html
%F Wood:CSD-88-394