Slidecast: All About OpenSPARC

OpenSPARC Slidecasts are 12 modules of on-line training by designers, developers, and programmers who worked on the creation of the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 microprocessors. These are made available to guide users as they develop their own OpenSPARC designs and to assist professors as they teach the next generation of processor designers. The twelve chapters cover the different aspects of OpenSPARC and together are equivalent to a 2 day technical OpenSPARC workshop.

This is your opportunity to dive into OpenSPARC! Learn the history, architecture and micro-architecture. Hear about setting up the FPGA, and play with the simulators. Investigate the hypervisor and understand virtualization. If you're more interested in the software aspects, get into the compilers and create applications for CMT processors. It's all there for you, just awaiting your curiosity.

The slidecasts (presentation with a voiceover), the PDF files and the star/openoffice files are available. We are providing this material under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

The slidecast is divided into the following chapters:

1. Chip Multi-Threading (CMT) Era presented by Dave Weaver
2. OpenSPARC Program presented by Dave Weaver
3. SPARC Architecture Generations presented by Dave Weaver
4. OpenSPARC T1 Overview presented by Denis Sheahan
5. OpenSPARC T2 Overview presented by Denis Sheahan
6. OpenSPARC - What's Available? presented by Tom Thatcher
7. OpenSPARC FPGA Implementation presented by Tom Thatcher
8. OpenSPARC Simulators presented by Stephen Henry
9. Hypervisor and Virtualization presented by Maran Wilson
10. Developing Applications for CMT Processors presented by Darryl Gove
11. Operating Systems for OpenSPARC presented by Darryl Gove
12. OpenSPARC Community Participation presented by Dave Weaver

Register to access and download the slidecast, pdf and openoffice files.

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hemant pande: thanks

must thank all the developers for all above documents...they can be very useful for beginners like me....
good job..

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December 05, 2008
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Jinkai Long: Thanks!

Thanks!

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February 25, 2009
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kishore: awesome http://kishorey.weebly.com/

This slide cast is really awesome...it even covers lot of fundamentals of modern processor design

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March 08, 2009
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mt: title

It cannot open them. Where can those be dowloaded from?

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May 02, 2009
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mt: ...

oh, my bad, it is ok^^

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May 13, 2009
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ss: some slidecasts won't run

try to play the slidecasts but some of them are not running

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November 10, 2009
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ss: re:some slidecasts won't run http://re:some slidecasts won't run

I found the problem. Firefox wont run some of them. for those who use firefox, install IETab addon so you can switch to IE. IE has no problem running all the slidecasts.

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November 12, 2009
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protik: Even IE is not able to run

I just tried even IE is unable to run few slidecasts, can someone verify it
Thanks

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March 10, 2010
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