| Abstract | .... 2 | |
| 1 | Introduction | .... 2 |
| 2 | Motive of the hierartical Shared- memory Artchitecture | .... 2 |
| 3 | Overview of PIM/k architecture | .... 3 |
| 3.1 | Memory architecture | .... 3 |
| 3.2 | Processsor board | .... 4 |
| 4 | Software debugging and performance evaluation support | .... 5 |
| 4.1 | Repeatability of a Parallel Processing | .... 5 |
| 4.2 | Suspension mechanisms | .... 6 |
| 4.3 | Long trace with little distortion | .... 6 |
| 4.4 | Universal event counters | .... 7 |
| 5 | Cache consisitency Protocol | .... 7 |
| 5.1 | Write invalidate versus write broadcast | .... 7 |
| 5.2 | Design considerations of a hierarchical cache protocol | .... 7 |
| 5.3 | Multi-level-inclusion property | .... 9 |
| 5.4 | Enhancement of the ownnership | .... 9 |
| 5.5 | Definiton of states and bus commands | .... 9 |
| 5.6 | Replacement algorithm | .... 10 |
| 5.7 | Lock operation | .... 12 |
| 5.8 | Deadlock | .... 12 |
| 5.9 | Possible enhancements | .... 13 |
| 6 | Conclusion | .... 13 |
| Acknowledgement | .... 14 | |
| References | .... 14 | |
| Appendix; Protocol behavior | .... 15 | |
| End | .... 16 |
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