Tutorials
We have held a handful of tutorials on M5 at various conferences. Though the material in these tutorials can be out of date, the tutorial materials present a more organized (and in some cases more in-depth) overview than the wiki documentation. We highly recommend taking a look at the most recent tutorial as a complement to the documentation on the wiki.
The slides and handouts are the same material except that the handouts are formatted with two slides per page.
ASPLOS-13
This tutorial, held in March 2008 at ASPLOS XIII in Seattle, covered M5 2.0 and included several small examples on creating SimObjects and adding parameters.
- Slides
- Handouts
- Video
- Introduction -- A brief overview of M5, its capabilities and concepts
- Running -- How to compile and run M5
- Full System -- Full system benchmarks, disk images, and scripts
- Objects -- An overview of the various object models that are available out of the box
- Extending -- M5 internals, defining new objects & parameters, statistics, ISA descriptions, ARM & X86 support, future development
- Debugging -- Facilities in M5 to aid debugging
- Description
ISCA-33
This tutorial, held in June 2006 at ISCA 33 in Boston, was the first one to cover M5 2.0.
ISCA-32
Our first tutorial, held in June 2005 at ISCA 32 in Madison, is rather dated as it covered M5 1.X and not 2.0.
