1980: no cache in proc; 1995 2-level cache on chip ... Millenium: can get account via web site. SimpleScalar: info on my web page. CS252/Kubiatowicz ...
Workshop on Duplicating Deconstructing and Debunking (WDDD 2005) ... Call uncorruption optimization for free. How to fix correct alignment in SimpleScalar ...
Interface with MILAN. PowerAnalyzer configuration parameters ... MILAN can use the same configuration routines for SimpleScalar to configure PowerAnalyzer ...
What architects normally do: model behavior/performance at the cycle level (eg, SimpleScalar) ... Current Arch.-Level Power Simulators. Wattch (Brooks et al. ...
Lam et al [1991] a blocking factor of 24 had a fifth the misses vs. 48 despite ... NOW: apparently can get account via web site. SimpleScalar: info on my web page ...
SimpleScalar ARM target support ... SS/ARM available since mid-November, used by 10 PAC/C groups ... ARM CISC instructions required microcode support ...
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of Wisconsin ... X = Squash at Execute. Protection Branch. WBT-2000. H. Cain, K. Lepak and M. Lipasti ...
... def file for proper output format (called OPFORMAT) ... decode mask, proper decode result) ... if it matches decode result, then this is the proper instruction ...
... data structures (such as the ROB and ISQ) were modified to support arbitrary rollback. ... split into a reorder buffer (ROB) and reservation stations (RS) ...
Design Automation of. Co-Processors for Application Specific Instruction Set Processors ... Power & Performance vs Design / Manufacturing Cost. ASIPs are the ...
Jared Stark. Microprocessor Research. Intel Labs. jared.w.stark@intel.com. Basic Idea. History-based predictors use a global history to predict a branch. ...
Title: On the Value Locality of Store Instructions Author: Kevin Lepak Last modified by: Mikko H Lipasti Created Date: 4/20/2000 3:20:45 PM Document presentation format
Instruction set simulators (ISS) Emulate the functionality of programs ... During the interval between two control steps, the hardware modules communicate ...
High performance video decoding/MP3 playback. And increasingly, both. ... Big Proviso. CPUs available today, even the 'low power' ones, are still after speed. ...
Related Work. Problem Statement. Proposed Solutions. Experimental Setup. Experimental Results ... Pseudo-LRU techniques perform as well as LRU for data caches ...
Baseline H.263 Video Encoding ... on data dependencies for parallel (out-of-order) execution ... Parallel assembly: SAD, Clip_MB (clips overflowing values) ...
Based on a formal semantics provided by Metropolis. Enables a clear design flow. ... Abstract CPU modeling in Metropolis; Prove the feasibility of constructing CPU ...
... Microprocessor In-order issue No branch prediction Minimal number of functional units Integer ALU Floating Point ALU Integer Multiplier/Divider Floating Point ...
Conservative (no speculation) Stalls all loads until all prior stores complete ... Load squashes in default conservative and perfect modes shouldn't happen ...
Performance Analysis and Power Estimation of ARM Processor Team: Ajayshanker Krishnamurthy Swathi Tanjore Gurumani Zexin Pan Project Advisor: Dr.Alexander Milenkovic
Schedules across branches ... between performance improvement and branches replaced by RFUOP's. Benchmarks with lowest branch reduction have lowest speedup ...
history. PC. GBH. Reduce table interference through more intelligent table indexing scheme. ... BDP removes 13% to 9% of the misprediction over gShare. ...
Motive: used for some applications whose: . Usage of data cache is very limited (almost 20 ... DCT is speed up by almost 30 time using RCs (Hue- Sung Kim Thesis) ...
What is a Scratchpad Memory (SPM) Array of SRAM cells. No extra bits or tags ... 8 Mb SDRAM (10ns), simplified burst mode 10-1-1-1*, 4 word line size. Data main memory ...
... scalar threads into warps. Branch divergence occurs when threads inside warps ... Banked local memory accessible by all threads within a shader core (a block) ...
Xilinx ML310 board. Georgia Tech, Cornell, LLNL - WARFP 2005. 6. PowerPC ... running. on ... Memory on board is too fast, compared to processors in ...
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Use scalar ISA to represent SIMD operations ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Applied to ARM Neon ...
Store frequently occurring instructions as specified by the compiler in a small, ... Pipeline gating / Front-end throttling stall fetch when in areas of low IPC ...
Workload dynamics reveals the changing of workload behavior over time ... crafty. 15. On-line Program Scaling Estimation. Pyramid algorithm for DWT computation ...
Q: How much associativity is enough for state-of-the-art benchmarks? ... For instruction cache, OPT replacement policy benefits from increased associativity. ...