CAREER: Architectural Optimization of High Performance Microprocessor-Based Systems

该项目的主要目的是开发具有显著提高的效率和准确性的架构优化工具。 将在三个相互关联的类别中开发工具。 第一个是一个全面的半自动化方法，同时探索微处理器和系统级设计空间。 第二个是一个硬件仿真器耦合到软件仿真。 第三个并行搜索的最佳使用网络的工作站。 最终的结果，称为道路，将大大提高效率和准确性超过现有的方法。 道路将形成一个新的课程序列，将整合计算机体系结构和实现的主题的核心。 多级仿真将允许学生解决比当前大多数课程中使用的仿真器更广泛的设计问题。 其结果将是新一代的工程师更好地准备设计和实现新的计算架构。

The primiary purpose of this project is to develop architectural optimization tools with dramatically improved efficiency and accuracy. Tools will be developed in three inter-related categories. The first is a comprehensive semi-automated methodology for simultaneously exploring the microprocessor and system level design spaces. The second is a hardware emulator coupled to software simulation. The third parallelizes the search for an optimum using a network of workstations. The end result, called ROADS, will have dramatically improved efficiency and accuracy over existing methods. ROADS will form the centerpiece of a new course sequence that will integrate the topics of computer architecture and implementation. Multilevel simulation will allow students to address a much wider scope of design problems than the simulators used in most current curricula. The result will be a new generation of engineers better prepared to both design and implement new computing architectures.