Simulators are the tool of choice when designing new computer architectures. While
software-based simulators are (relatively) easy to adapt to evaluate new architectural …

New benchmark suites are constantly being released, with each one providing a much
larger set of benchmarks, representing an ever-growing variety of workloads. Contemporary …

Modern architecture research relies heavily on detailed pipeline simulation. Simulating the
full execution of an industry standard benchmark can take weeks to complete. Simulating the …

We present RAMP Gold, an economical FPGA-based architecture simulator that allows rapid
early design-space exploration of manycore systems. The RAMP Gold prototype is a high …

Modern architecture research relies heavily on detailed pipeline simulation. Simulating the
full execution of a single industry standard benchmark at this level of detail takes on the …

We present a modular and scalable approach for automatically extracting actual
performance information from a set of FPGA-based architecture topologies. This information …

Understanding the cycle level behavior of a processor running an application is crucial to
modern computer architecture research. To gain this understanding, detailed cycle level …

An ideal simulator allows an architect to swiftly explore design alternatives and accurately
determine their impact on performance. Design exploration requires simulators to be easily …

Pipeline parallelism is an inherent characteristic of structural performance models, which
makes them well-suited for mapping onto FPGA substrates. This observation, along with the …

This paper describes FAST, a novel simulation methodology that can produce simulators
that (i) are orders of magnitude faster than comparable simulators,(ii) are cycle-accurate,(Hi) …