The books (PDF)¶
The documents of this site as printable books, each with a title page, contents and a chapter per document (tools/mkpdf.py, made again on every change).
| Book | What it holds |
|---|---|
| P32W Hardware Reference | The system, the bus and the cards: theory of operation |
| The P32W Debug Card | The bus tester in slot 0: how it works and how a host uses it |
| The P32W Bus | The backplane: the bus cycle, mastership, interrupts, every pin and signal |
| P32W Instruction Set | The user ISA, the system architecture and every instruction |
| P32W Programmer's Guide | Programs on the bare machine: registers, devices, the boot ROM and its monitor, the tools |
| P32W Unix | Using it, and how it works inside: the kernel, boot, the filesystem, devices, networking |
| P32W Emulators and Tests | p32emu, p32uemu, the gate-level simulations, benchmarks |
| P32W Design Record | Every decision, dated, and what is still to do |