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KL MICROCODE RELEASE DOCUMENT -- V326
September 1983
Copyright (C)1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass.
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and should not be construed as a commitment by Digital Equipment
Corporation.
DEC assumes no responsibility for the use or reliability of its
software on equipment which is not supplied by DEC.
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1.0 SUMMARY
1. Microcode version 326 is the tenth release of the KL10
microcode. Microcode version 326 appears as KLX.MCB only.
It supports a model B KL10 for TOPS-20 V5.1 or earlier only.
This is the fifth release of the KL10 microcode that supports
an 'Extended KL10' described in the Hardware Reference
Manual. Only KLX.RAM supports the 'Extended KL10'. (KLX.MCB
is derived from KLX.RAM and does support the 'Extended
KL10'.)
The KL10 microcode is different for TOPS-10 and TOPS-20
systems. The KL10 microcode is different for model A and
model B processors. (What engineering calls a model B
processor is sometimes known as a KL10-PV.) The TOPS-10
microcode for model A processors is called U.RAM, for model B
processors it is UB.RAM. The TOPS-20 microcode for model A
processors is called KLL.RAM, for model B processors it is
called KLX.RAM. The PDP-11 front end requires different
formats of the microcode files. These translated files have
different names. TOPS-10 model A: UA.MCB. TOPS-10 model B:
UB.MCB. TOPS-20 model A: KLA.MCB. TOPS-20 model B:
KLX.MCB.
2. The KL10 microcode is not dependent on any monitor, but
because of hardware differences between the various -10
processors, a monitor must be built specifically for the
KL10. KL10 microcode version 326 has been tested with the
TOPS-20 release 5.1 monitor.
See LCREV for information regarding microcode requirements for various
hardware revision levels.
2.0 KNOWN DEFICIENCIES
When executing a CVTBDO using a One Word Global Byte Pointer the
fill is taken from E0 rather than E0+1.
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3.0 FIXED PROBLEMS
The following problems have been fixed:
326 Change VMA restoration in INC2WD and CNV2WD (See edits 320 and 307)
to use RSTR VMA_MQ in order to keep the global sense of the
reference. This was causing ILDBs of OWGs in shadow memory to
save the incremented byte pointer in the ACs instead of memory.
325 Add VMA/LOAD to local indexed EA computation for EXTEND E1 to make
it read the section number from VMA instead of PCS (!) if the index
is section local.
324 Force the XADDR conditional to use RPW type references for DPB and
IDPB if the SMP conditional is on, even if one word globals are not
active.
323 Add missing constraint near NOT.WR, accidentally broken by 322.
322 Generate the A(cessible) bit in a page fail word caused by a read
violation if the page is otherwise accessible and if no CST is present.
This could be fixed for the CST present case as well, but has been
deferred since we are tight on space and no one seems to need it
anyway.
321 Prevent statistics microcode from losing traps by forcing NICOND
dispatch 11 to ignore the statistics and take the trap.
320 Restore the VMA again in INC2WD (broken by 307), since the state
register bits may have changed in the interim. This was causing
PXCT to do surprising things (mostly bad).
317 Originally, this was an attempt to uncount multiply counted op
codes which resulted from interrupts during long instructions.
That project has been shelved for now. Instead, the second
NICOND dispatch during op code counting has had its final constraint
fixed.
316 Make counting only version compatible with time and counting by making
counting only version use TRX2 and TRX3, removing physical contiguity
requirement.
315 Op code counting lives again! The setup code activated by DATAO PI
was attempting to write the TRX registers with data fresh from memory,
resulting in parity checks when it was used (see edit 73, for example).
Juggle code to overlap next address calculation with parity wait.
314 Add CST.WRITE conditional to facilitate assembly of microcode
without the CST writable bit (see edit 303).
313 Put TIME/3T on XFERW, as the assembler was getting the wrong
value with both AR_MEM and ARX_MEM macros present.
312 Fix definition of BYTE RPW to include a write test. This was
causing the SMP version of DPB to hang when memory was readable
but not writable.
311 Make all IOP function 7 style of references look in the cache.
310 Improve the fix in 307 to save the computed E0+1 in FILL during
OWGBP conversion and to restore the VMA from there when done.
Also, make sure that the VMA is initialized to PC for all cases
when doing effective address calculations for two word globals
in string instructions. 307 was not enough to clean up the
CMPSx fill problem, since VMA HELD was never loaded.
Force EXT2WD to prereference AC4 and AC5 so that glitch discovered
for second edit 210 will not be activated.
307 Restore VMA from MQ at end of CNV2WD (and remove it from INC2WD,
saving a word in the process). This was causing CMPSx to load
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a random fill word and MOVSLJ to store to a random place when the
source length was zero if one word globals were in use.
Force page fail code to look for ARX as well as AR parity errors
(now possible with BYTE RPW implemented).
Make sign extension of E1 go to right place in EXTEND decoding of
offset instructions (broken in 301).
306 Add University of Essex code to statistics (TRACKS) code to make
it work with address break enabled.
305 Fix CST write bit logic to not test bit 18 when reading.
304 Switch byte read interlock from LDB to DPB (broken in 303).
303 Implement bit 18 of a CST entry as a write enable bit in addition
to all the other write enable functions.
Knock one cycle out of byte deposit where the byte is being
deposited into the high order byte of a word.
Implement the SMP conditional for extended addressing by
replicating all the byte effective address calculation code for
DPB. This is unfortunate, but necessary due to the huge dispatch
table that ends this subroutine.
302 Move XFERW out of EIS (which no longer absolutely requires it
in line) into SKPJMP (more in the heart of things). Also
juggle comment lines and code layout to reduce the listing
size a bit and to force some of the .TOC lines into the table
of contents (even though the code nearby may be suppressed).
301 Fix ADJBP so that instructions which occur at the last word on
a page do not cause a page failure of some random type (one cycle
too many between I FETCH and NICOND).
Fix effective address calculation for EXTEND so that only offset
instructions (and not GSNGL, for example) will have E1 sign
smeared.
Implement XJRST. Also force JSP and JSR to do full 30 bit
effective address calculations.
300 ADD LOAD OF VMA FROM PC IN PUTDST TO GET THE SECTION ADDRESS
CORRECT ON THE STRING INSTRUCTIONS.
277 Add EA CALC table for SMP configurations of extended addressing
for TOPS-10. (TOPS-20 paging)
276 Force global EA CALC for EXTEND instructions in PUTDST.
4.0 RELATED DOCUMENTATION
The microcode is implicitly documented in the System Reference Manual,
in that it is an implementation of a PDP-10. The only other
documentation is in the listing and prints of the KL10 processor.
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5.0 FUNCTION OF THE DIFFERENT MICROCODE VERSIONS.
U.RAM is the microprogram which directs the operation of the KL10
model A hardware to emulate the behavior of a PDP-10 for a TOPS-10
system. UB.RAM is the microprogram which directs the operation of the
KL10 model B hardware (KL10-PV) to emulate the behavior of a PDP-10
for a TOPS-10 system. UB.RAM should look exactly like U.RAM to PDP-10
software.
KLL.RAM is the microprogram which directs the operation of the KL10
model A hardware to emulate the behavior of a PDP-10 for a TOPS-20
system. KLX.RAM is the microprogram which directs the operation of
the KL10 model B hardware to emulate the behavior of a PDP-10 for a
TOPS-20 system. KLX.RAM implements the 'Extended KL10' explained in
the Hardware Reference Manual.
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