IEEE 1596 : 1992
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01-01-1993
1. Introduction
1.1 Document structure
1.2 SCI overview
1.3 Interconnect topologies
1.4 Transactions
1.5 Cache coherence
1.6 Reliability, availability, and support (RAS)
2. References, glossary, and notation
2.1 References
2.2 Conformance levels
2.3 Glossary
2.4 Bit and byte ordering
2.5 Numerical values
2.6 C code
3. Logical protocols and formats
3.1 Packet formats
3.2 Send and echo packet formats
3.3 Logical packet encodings
3.4 Transaction types
3.5 Elastic buffers
3.6 Bandwidth allocation
3.7 Queue allocation
3.8 Transaction errors
3.9 Transmission errors
3.10 Address initialization
3.11 Packet encoding
3.12 SCI-specific control and status registers
4. Cache-coherence protocols
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Coherence
4.3 Minimal-set coherence protocols
4.4 Typical-set coherence protocols
4.5 Full-set coherence protocols
4.6 C-code naming conventions
4.7 Coherent read and write transactions
5. C-code structure
5.1 Node structure
5.2 A node's linc component
5.3 Other node components
6. Physical layers
6.1 Type 1 module
6.2 Type 18-DE-500 signals and power control
6.3 Type 18-DE-500 module extender cable
6.4 Type 18-DE-500 cable-link
6.5 Serial interconnection
7. Bibliography
Annex A. Ringlet initialization
Annex B. SCI design models
B.1 Fast counters
B.2 Translation-lookaside-buffer coherence
B.2.1 Virtual addressing
B.2.2 TLB-purge options
B.2.3 Interrupt-driven purges
B.2.4 Direct-register purges
B.2.5 Coherently purged TLBs
B.3 Coherent lock models
B.4 Coherence-performance models
B.4.1 Nonblocking message queues
Numerous figures
Numerous tables
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