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PPSim: A cycle-accurate simulator for powerPC instruction set

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Simulators play an important part in computer architecture research. As for specific microarchitecture study, which focuses on the accurate behavior of out-of-order scheduling, ALU contention, and function unit management, an over-simplified abstraction is not sufficient to represent modern processor organizations. Thus cycle-accurate simulators are introduced to describe the accurate behavior in target microarchitecture. In cycle-accurate simulators, the timing feature within function units is simulated. This paper presents PPSim, a cycle-accurate PowerPC instruction set simulator, which models the cache, branch prediction, and out of order pipeline in PowerPC microarchitecture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Research on Materials, Applied Mechanics and Design Science
Pages1766-1769
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2nd International Conference on Intelligent Materials, Applied Mechanics and Design Science, IMAMD 2013 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 13 Apr 201314 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameApplied Mechanics and Materials
Volume327
ISSN (Print)1660-9336
ISSN (Electronic)1662-7482

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Intelligent Materials, Applied Mechanics and Design Science, IMAMD 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period13/04/1314/04/13

Keywords

  • Cycle-accurate simulation
  • Functional simulation
  • Microarchitecture
  • PowerPC
  • Simulation

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