Title :
Virtual Power Management simulation framework for computer systems
Author :
Brock, B. ; Ramani, S. ; Vu, K. ; Hanson, H. ; Floyd, Melissa
Abstract :
We developed a Virtual Power Management (VPM) simulation methodology for pre-silicon design and validation of power management hardware and firmware. VPM integrates a realistic hardware interface with high-level workload and power models to achieve fast and effective system-wide simulation. VPM models are used independently for algorithmic and architectural exploration, and in conjunction with the Simics simulation environment to execute real firmware for verification. In this paper, we present an overview of the VPM architecture and results from two studies using the simulation framework.
Keywords :
computer interfaces; firmware; memory architecture; Simics simulation environment; VPM architecture; VPM model; VPM simulation methodology; algorithmic exploration; architectural exploration; computer system; firmware; hardware interface; high-level workload; power management hardware; power model; presilicon design; system-wide simulation; virtual power management simulation framework; Abstracts; Computational modeling; Hardware; Measurement; Program processors; Radiation detectors;
Conference_Titel :
Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5776-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5778-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISPASS.2013.6557157
