CAREER: Systematic Design Space Exploration

该项目涉及研究、开发和传播执行严格、系统的处理器设计-空间探索所需的技术和工具。 关键要素是一个框架，其中架构模拟器和目标编译器自动从一个共同的架构描述，提供架构师，微架构师和编译器开发人员与adjanic，但连贯的，环境内设计处理器系统。 这样一个系统将提高生产力和设计质量，通过收紧架构决策和现实主义的性能反馈之间的循环，并允许原型团队成员之间更有成效的合作。 设计周期的缩短将对抗日益严峻的市场压力，保障新的通用微处理器和专用处理器（ASIP）设计的实用性，如网络硬件、蜂窝电话和下一代数字设备中的专用处理器。 此外，这项研究将提供宝贵的经验，本科生和研究生在计算机体系结构和编译器。 这个系统是一个理想的机制，通过它，学生可以与计算机体系结构和编译器概念的实际例子进行交互-它将允许他们快速原型系统，实验新的想法，从而建立对计算机系统的直觉。

This project involves the research, development, and dissemination of techniques and tools necessary to perform rigorous, systematic processor design-space exploration. The key element is a framework inwhich architectural simulators and targeted compilers are automatically derived from a common architectural description, providing architects, microarchitects, and compiler developers with adynamic, yet coherent, environment within which to design processor systems. Such a system would enhance productivity and design quality by tightening the loop between architectural decision-making andrealistic performance feedback and by allowing for more productive collaboration among the members of a prototyping team. The resulting reduction in design cycle times will counter increasingly restrictivemarket pressures, safeguarding the practicality of designing both new general-purpose microprocessors and application-specific processors (ASIPs), such as those found in networking hardware, cellulartelephones, and next-generation digital devices. Additionally, this research will provide invaluable experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students in computer architecture and compilers. Thissame system is an ideal mechanism by which students can interact with tangible examples of computer architecture and compiler concepts -- it will allow them to rapidly prototype systems, experiment with new ideas, and thereby build intuition about computer systems.