CAREER: Understanding, Estimating, and Reducing Processor Design Complexity

职业：理解、评估和降低处理器设计复杂性本CAREER项目的目标是理解、评估和降低处理器设计复杂性。 该项目将开发处理器设计复杂性的三个组成部分的复杂性度量：一个程序，以考虑在设计中的不同组件的贡献，准确的统计回归实验测量使用非线性混合效应模型，和生产力调整，以考虑不同团队的生产力。 一旦这些指标被开发出来，降低处理器设计复杂性的新方法将被开发出来。由于微处理器设计的复杂性迅速增长，目前顶级处理器的开发成本是惊人的。 随着更大和更复杂的处理器的设计，它变得越来越难以估计的设计和验证时间。 处理器设计成本估算仍然没有定量的方法，并且在测量、理解和估算所需工作方面的工作也很少。 该项目将通过制定适当的量化指标来解决这些问题。

CAREER: Understanding, Estimating, and Reducing Processor Design Complexity The goal of this CAREER project is to understand, estimate, and reduce processor design complexity. The project will develop three-component complexity metrics for processor design complexity: a procedure to account for the contributions of the different components in the design, accurate statistical regression of experimental measures using a nonlinear mixed-effects model, and a productivity adjustment to account for the productivities of different teams. Once the metrics are developed, new approaches to reduce processor design complexity will be developed.Current development costs for top of the line processors are staggering due to the rapidly-growing complexity of microprocessor design. As larger and more complex processors are designed, it is becoming increasingly difficult to estimate design and verification times. Processor design cost estimation still does not have a quantitative approach, and there is little work on measuring, understanding, and estimating the effort required. The project will address these issues be developing appropriate quantitive metrics.