Processor and System-on-Chip Simulation

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
The Life Cycle of a Virtual Platform....Pages 7-24
Full-System Simulation from Embedded to High-Performance Systems....Pages 25-45
Toward the Datacenter: Scaling Simulation Up and Out....Pages 47-63
Modular ISA-Independent Full-System Simulation....Pages 65-83
Structural Simulation for Architecture Exploration....Pages 85-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Accelerating Simulation with FPGAs....Pages 107-126
Scalable Simulation for MPSoC Software and Architectures....Pages 127-144
Adaptive High-Speed Processor Simulation....Pages 145-159
Representative Sampling Using SimPoint....Pages 161-177
Statistical Sampling....Pages 179-191
Efficient Cache Modeling with Sparse Data....Pages 193-209
Statistical Simulation....Pages 211-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Memory Modeling with CACTI....Pages 229-242
Thermal Modeling for Processors and Systems-on-Chip....Pages 243-257
Rapid Technology-Aware Design Space Exploration for Embedded Heterogeneous Multiprocessors....Pages 259-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
IP Modeling and Verification....Pages 279-292
Configurable, Extensible Processor System Simulation....Pages 293-308
Simulation Acceleration in Wireless Baseband Processing....Pages 309-324
Trace-Driven Workload Simulation for MPSoC Software Performance Estimation....Pages 325-340
Back Matter....Pages 341-345