Designing performance into i960 superscalar microprocessors

Author

Garbus, Elliot

Author_Institution

Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

24-28 Feb. 1992

Firstpage

354

Lastpage

357

Abstract

The author outlines two major development efforts designed to maintain the price performance advantage of the Intel i960 family of 32-b embedded processors. These are trace-driven simulation and profile-driven compilers. The trace-driven simulation environment is used to evaluate micro-architectural trade-offs in microprocessor design. This simulation methodology allows the simulation of real applications under a wide variety of process and system configurations. Two-pass profile driven compiler technology allows a compiler to optimize a program based on the execution of that program.<>

Keywords

digital simulation; microprocessor chips; performance evaluation; program compilers; program debugging; programming environments; software tools; 32 bit; Intel i960 family; embedded processors; i960 superscalar microprocessors; microprocessor design; performance design; program execution; program optimisation; trace-driven simulation environment; two pass profile driven compilers; Analytical models; Communication system control; Costs; Microprocessors; Military standards; Page description languages; Performance analysis; Printing; Registers; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '92. Thirty-Seventh IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2655-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1992.186738

Filename

186738