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AstroLIT: enabling simulation-based microarchitecture comparison between Intel® and Transmeta designs

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Ronak Singhal, and

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CF '11: Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

May 2011

Article No.: 21, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/2016604.2016629

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While the out-of-order engine has been the mainstream micro-architecture-design paradigm to achieve high performance, Transmeta took a different approach using dynamic binary translation (BT). To enable detailed comparison of these two radically different processor-design approaches, it is natural to leverage well-established simulation-based methodologies. However, BT-based processor designs pose new challenges to standard sampling-based simulation methodologies. This paper describes these challenges, and it also introduces the AstroLIT methodology to address them.

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CF '11: Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

May 2011

268 pages

ISBN:9781450306980

DOI:10.1145/2016604

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