Title :
Designing performance into i960 superscalar microprocessors
Author_Institution :
Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1992.186738
