The evolution to Manycore platforms is real, both in the High-Performance Computing
domain and in embedded systems. If we start with ten or more cores, we can see the …

High-level simulation is becoming commonly used for design space exploration of many-
core systems. We have been working on high-level simulation techniques for the …

Modern processors are integrating an increasing number of cores, which brings new design
challenges. However, mainstream architectural simulators primarily focus on unicore or …

This paper presents different views exposed in a special session on the current standing of
programming and design tools for multi and manycores in the embedded domain. After …

With their significant performance and energy advantages, emerging manycore processors
have also brought new challenges to the architecture research community. Manycore …

Hardware simulators are indispensable tools for the computer architecture research. They
are used by the academia and industry to prototype, explore and evaluate novel …

With ever expanding design space and workload space in multicore era, it is a challenge to
identify optimal design points quickly, desirable during the early stage of multicore processor …

Architecture simulators play an important role in exploring frontiers in the early stages of the
architecture design. However, the execution time of simulators increases with an increase …

The EU Apple-CORE project has explored the design and implementation of novel general-
purpose many-core chips featuring hardware microthreading and hardware support for …

The case for developing and using virtual platforms (VPs) has now been made. If developers
of complex HW/SW systems are not using VPs for their current design, complexity of next …