Validating trace-driven microarchitectural simulations

IEEE Micro

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 76-82

  Khalid, Humayun ^a  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUCTION PER CYCLE; METRIC COMPUTATION; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION;

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0034317861     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/40.888706     Document Type: Article

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