Introduction

• Overview / Agenda
• What is gem5 / history
• Where should gem5 be used? 
• What are the capabilities and limitations?
• Workloads

Getting started with gem5 [more of a demo]

• Downloading
• Compiling gem5
• Running gem5 (example scripts fs/se)
• Understanding the output

Advanced configuration / running

• Overall (software) architecture of gem5
• Writing your own configuration scripts
• Debugging guest software

Introduction to memory subsystems

• Caches
• Memory
• Interconnect
• Traffic generators and monitors
• Demo to stitch the memory subsystems together

Advanced gem5 features and capabilities

• Power modelling
• KVM 
• Graphics

How to contribute to gem5

• How to interact with the community / getting help
• How to write code that gets accepted upstream
• How to submit code for review