Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02)
Modeling Assembly Instruction Timing in Superscalar Architectures
Kyoto, Japan
October 02-October 04
ISBN: 1-58113-576-9
W. Fornaciari, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, Milano, Italy
V. Trianni, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, Milano, Italy
C. Brandolese, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, Milano, Italy
D. Sciuto, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, Milano, Italy
F. Salice, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, Milano, Italy
G. Beltrame, CEFRIEL Research Centre, Via R. Fucini, Milano, Italy
This paper proposes an original model of the execution time of assembly instructions in superscalar architectures. The approach is based on a rigorous mathematical model and provides a methodology and a toolset to perform data analysis and model tuning. The methodology also provides a framework for building new trace simulators for generic architectures. The results obtained show a good accuracy paired with a satisfactory computational efficiency.
Index Terms:
assembly-level analysis, performance estimation, superscalar architectures
Citation:
W. Fornaciari, V. Trianni, C. Brandolese, D. Sciuto, F. Salice, G. Beltrame, "Modeling Assembly Instruction Timing in Superscalar Architectures," isss, pp.132-137, Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02), 2002