forwardcom.tex

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\title{ForwardCom: An open-standard instruction set for high-performance microprocessors}
\author{Agner Fog}
\date{\today}

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\begin{document}
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% Introduction
% - Highlights
% - Background
% - Design goals
% - Comparison with other open instruction sets
% - References and links
\subfile{fwc_introduction.tex}

% Basic architecture
% - A fully orthogonal instruction set
% - Instruction size
% - Register set
% - Vector support
% - Vector loops
% - Maximum vector length
% - Instruction masks
% - Addressing modes
\subfile{fwc_basic_architecture.tex}

% Instruction formats
% - Formats and templates
% - Coding of operands
% - Coding of masks
% - Format for jump, call and branch instructions
% - Assignment of opcodes
\subfile{fwc_instruction_formats.tex}

% Instruction lists
% - List of multi-format instructions
% - List of tiny instructions
% - List of single-format instructions
\subfile{fwc_instruction_lists.tex}

% - Description of instructions
% - Common operations that have no dedicated instruction
% - Unused instructions
\subfile{fwc_description_of_instructions.tex}

% Numerical errors and exceptions
% - A different way of tracing errors
% - Floating point error types
% - Propagation of NaNs
% - Detecting integer overflow
\subfile{fwc_numerical_errors_and_exceptions.tex}

% Other implementation details
% - Endianness
% - Pointers and addresses
% - Implementation of call stack
% - Performance monitoring and error tracking
% - Multithreading
% - Security features
\subfile{fwc_other_implementation_details.tex}

% Programmable application-specific instructions
\subfile{fwc_programmable_instructions.tex}

% Microarchitecture and pipeline design
\subfile{fwc_microarchitecture_and_pipeline.tex}

% Memory model
% - Thread memory protection
% - Memory management
\subfile{fwc_memory_model.tex}

% System programming
% - Memory map
% - Call stack
% - System calls and system functions
% - Inter-process calls
% - Error message handling
\subfile{fwc_system_programming.tex}

% Standardization of ABI and software ecosystem
% - Compiler support
% - Binary data representation
% - Further conventions for object-oriented languages
% - Function calling convention
% - Register usage convention
% - Name mangling for function overloading
\subfile{fwc_abi_standard.tex}

% - Binary format for object files and executable files
% - Function libraries and link methods
% - Library function dispatch system
% - Predicting the stack size
% - Exception handling, stack unrolling and debug information
\subfile{fwc_object_file_format.tex}

% Support for multiple instruction sets
% - Transitions between ForwardCom and x86-64
% - Transitions between ForwardCom and ARM
% - Transitions between ForwardCom and RISC-V
\subfile{fwc_multiple_instruction_sets.tex}

% - Binary tools
\subfile{fwc_bintools.tex}

% Programming manual
\subfile{fwc_programming_manual.tex}

% Test suite
\subfile{fwc_testsuite.tex}

% Softcore
\subfile{fwc_softcore.tex}

% Conclusion
\subfile{fwc_conclusion.tex}

% Version history
\subfile{fwc_version_history.tex}

% Copyright notice
\subfile{fwc_copyright_notice.tex}

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