Title : 
A high-parallelism distributed scheduling mechanism for multi-core instruction-set simulation
         
        
            Author : 
Wu, Meng-Huan ; Wang, Peng-Chih ; Fu, Cheng-Yang ; Tsay, Ren-Song
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Ideally, multi-core instruction-set simulation should run in parallel to improve simulation performance. However, the conventional low-parallelism centralized scheduler greatly constrains simulation performance. To resolve this issue, we propose a high-parallelism distributed scheduling mechanism. The experimental results show that our proposed approach accelerates simulation by 6 to 20 times, depending on the number of cores.
         
        
            Keywords : 
circuit simulation; instruction sets; logic design; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; scheduling; high-parallelism distributed scheduling mechanism; low-parallelism centralized scheduler; multi-core instruction-set simulation; Clocks; Delay; Multicore processing; Parallel processing; Scheduling; Synchronization; Instruction-set simulator; Multi-core simulation; Parallel simulation; Timing synchronization;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2011 48th ACM/EDAC/IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
New York, NY
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4503-0636-2