What is the TSAR project ?

• TSAR (Tera-Scale ARchitecture) is an European project in the framework of MEDEA. The project leader is the BULL company.
• This web site is the internal web site of the LIP6 for the TSAR project.
• In the framework of the TSAR project, the LIP6 is in charge of defining - in cooperation with BULL - a scalable, coherent shared memory, multi-core architecture, and developing the corresponding virtual prototype.

TSAR documentation

• Architecture Overview
• Memory Management Unit
• Cache Coherence Protocol
• Atomic Operations
• Communication Architecture
• Architecture Versions
• TLMDT Modeling

Testing TSAR virtual prototype

• Install ​SoCLib
• Checkout Tsar modules

  $ svn co https://www-soc.lip6.fr/svn/tsar/trunk tsar
  

• Add the newly created tsar directory to soclib-cc; add the following line in your ~/.soclib/global.conf:

  config.addDescPath("/path/to/tsar")
  

• Go to tsar/platforms and try the prototypes