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% Manual for ForwardCom
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\begin{document}
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\title{ForwardCom: An open-standard instruction set for high-performance microprocessors}
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\author{Agner Fog}
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\date{\today}
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\maketitle
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\tableofcontents
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% Introduction
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% - Highlights
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% - Background
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% - Design goals
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% - Comparison with other open instruction sets
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% - References and links
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\subfile{fwc_introduction.tex}
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% Basic architecture
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% - A fully orthogonal instruction set
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% - Instruction size
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% - Register set
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% - Vector support
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% - Vector loops
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% - Maximum vector length
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% - Instruction masks
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% - Addressing modes
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\subfile{fwc_basic_architecture.tex}
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% Instruction formats
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% - Formats and templates
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% - Coding of operands
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% - Coding of masks
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% - Format for jump, call and branch instructions
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% - Assignment of opcodes
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\subfile{fwc_instruction_formats.tex}
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% Instruction lists
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% - List of multi-format instructions
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% - List of tiny instructions
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% - List of single-format instructions
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\subfile{fwc_instruction_lists.tex}
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% - Description of instructions
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% - Common operations that have no dedicated instruction
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% - Unused instructions
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\subfile{fwc_description_of_instructions.tex}
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% Other implementation details
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% - Endianness
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% - Implementation of call stack
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% - Floating point errors and exceptions
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% - Detecting integer overflow
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% - Multithreading
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% - Security features
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\subfile{fwc_other_implementation_details.tex}
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% Programmable application-specific instructions
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\subfile{fwc_programmable_instructions.tex}
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% Microarchitecture and pipeline design
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\subfile{fwc_microarchitecture_and_pipeline.tex}
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% Memory model
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% - Thread memory protection
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% - Memory management
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\subfile{fwc_memory_model.tex}
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% System programming
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% - Memory map
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% - Call stack
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% - System calls and system functions
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% - Inter-process calls
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% - Error message handling
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\subfile{fwc_system_programming.tex}
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% Support for multiple instruction sets
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% - Transitions between ForwardCom and x86-64
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% - Transitions between ForwardCom and ARM
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% - Transitions between ForwardCom and RISC-V
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\subfile{fwc_multiple_instruction_sets.tex}
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% Standardization of ABI and software ecosystem
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% - Compiler support
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% - Binary data representation
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% - Further conventions for object-oriented languages
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% - Function calling convention
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% - Register usage convention
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% - Name mangling for function overloading
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\subfile{fwc_abi_standard.tex}
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% - Binary format for object files and executable files
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% - Function libraries and link methods
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% - Library function dispatch system
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% - Predicting the stack size
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% - Exception handling, stack unrolling and debug information
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\subfile{fwc_object_file_format.tex}
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% - Binary tools
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\subfile{fwc_bintools.tex}
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% Programming manual
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\subfile{fwc_programming_manual.tex}
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% Test suite
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\subfile{fwc_testsuite.tex}
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% Softcore
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\subfile{fwc_softcore.tex}
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% Conclusion
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\subfile{fwc_conclusion.tex}
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% Revision history
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\subfile{fwc_revision_history.tex}
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% Copyright notice
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\subfile{fwc_copyright_notice.tex}
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\end{document}
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