RAMP Gold: An FPGA-based architecture simulator for multiprocessors

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 463-468

  Tan, Zhangxi ^a   Waterman, Andrew ^a   Avizienis, Rimas ^a   Lee, Yunsup ^a   Cook, Henry ^a   Patterson, David ^a   Asanović, Krste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FPGA; Multiprocessors; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CYCLE ACCURATE; DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; FPGA; FPGA BOARDS; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; FPGA-BASED ARCHITECTURES; FULL SYSTEM SIMULATORS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; MANY-CORE; MULTI-THREADING; MULTIPROCESSORS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARALLEL BENCHMARKS; SHARED MEMORIES; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE-BASED; TARGET MACHINES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; GOLD; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPACE RESEARCH;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 77956220100     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1837274.1837390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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