One of the biggest challenges in chip and system design is determining whether the
hardware works correctly. That is the job of functional verification engineers and they are the …

It is essential that a subset of benchmark programs used to evaluate an architectural
enhancement, is well distributed within the target workload space rather than clustered in …

This paper proposes a methodology for measuring the similarity between programs based
on their inherent microarchitecture-independent characteristics, and demonstrates two …

Designing a new microprocessor is extremely time-consuming. One of the contributing
reasons is that computerdesigners rely heavily on detailed architectural simulations, which …

Analytical modeling is applied to the automated design of application-specific superscalar
processors. Using an analytical method bridges the gap between the size of the design …

The performance of high-performance computing (HPC) and other real-world applications is
becoming unpredictable as the micro-architecture of the modern central processing unit …

We address the problem of minimizing buffer storage requirement in constructing rate-
optimal compile-time schedules for multi-rate dataflow graphs. We demonstrate that this …

Microprocessor design is both complex and time consuming: exploring a huge design space
for identifying the optimal design under a number of constraints is infeasible using detailed …

This paper discusses the emergence of graphics processing units (GPUs) that contain
architecture features for accelerating non-graphics (or GPGPU) applications. It provides an …

We have developed a function-level processor simulator, SimCore/Alpha Functional
Simulator Version 2.0 (SimCore Version 2.0), for processor architecture research and …