PicoLink Protocol

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Channels
  • Signal Descriptions and Flow Control
  • Message Field Definitions
  • MESI State Transitions
  • Coherency Manager (CM) Behavior
  • Ordering, Races, and Atomicity
  • Message Sequence Diagrams
  • Glossary
PicoLink Protocol
  • Index

Index

C | D | E | F | G | I | M | N | O | R | S | T | V

C

  • Cache line
  • CM

D

  • Demand
  • Directory

E

  • E (Exclusive)
  • Exclusive-grant optimization

F

  • Forced WriteBack

G

  • Grant

I

  • I (Invalid)
  • Implicit InvAck

M

  • M (Modified)
  • MESI

N

  • Nack

O

  • Outstanding transaction

R

  • Requester

S

  • S (Shared)
  • Serialization point
  • Silent transition

T

  • txn_id

V

  • Voluntary WriteBack

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