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Course contents

  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Paths
  • Concept Map
  • How to Read the Diagrams
  • Part 0: What Is a Protocol?10
  • Part 1: Timing and Clocking11
  • Part 2: Encoding and Framing12
  • Part 3: Handshakes13
  • Part 4: Flow Control17
  • Part 5: Transactions19
  • Part 6: Concurrency and Performance17
  • Part 7: Ordering13
  • Part 8: Sharing and Arbitration12
  • Part 9: Deadlock and Liveness13
  • Part 10: Reliability and Recovery20
  • Part 11: Bring-Up and Link Management10
  • Part 12: Power8
  • Part 13: Shared State and Coherence9
  • Part 14: Security and Isolation7
  • Part 15: Specifying and Verifying11
  • Part 16: Protocols Dissected17
  • Part 17: Capstones5
    • Read Any Spec
    • The Protocol Comparison Matrix
    • Design a Protocol
    • Design Review
    • Debug the Hang
  • Part 18: Interview Preparation6
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‹First Principles of Hardware Protocols
  1. Topics
  2. First Principles of Hardware Protocols
  3. Part 17: Capstones

Part 17 · Capstones · All levels

Part 17: Capstones

Can you apply all of it? Read an unfamiliar spec in a day.

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    Part 17 answers: Can you apply all of it?

    Five exercises that use the whole course: read an unfamiliar spec, fill a comparison matrix, design a protocol from requirements, review a flawed proposal, and find a hang from a waveform.

    After this part you can

    • Read an unfamiliar spec in a day.

    • Defend every choice in a protocol you designed.

    • Find the flaws in someone else's design.

    Lessons

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    Lesson

    Level

    Status

    17.1

    Read Any Spec

    S · Senior

    Ready

    17.2

    The Protocol Comparison Matrix

    S · Senior

    Ready

    17.3

    Design a Protocol

    P · Principal

    Ready

    17.4

    Design Review

    P · Principal

    Ready

    17.5

    Debug the Hang

    S · Senior

    Ready

    Every lesson in this part is ready. Work through them in order: each one sets up the problem the next one solves.

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    • How to Use This Course
    • Reading Paths
    • Concept Map