URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/87FDDF71-30A5-4AD7-ADBE-2A9674DEE7E8 | - |
Identifier | https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.82851 | - |
Language | en | - |
Extent | 80 pages | en |
Title | Full system architectural simulation on the HARP integrated CPU-FPGA platform | en |
Title | Πλήρης αρχιτεκτονική προσομοίωση στην ενσωματωμένη CPU-FPGA πλατφόρμα HARP | el |
Creator | Kyriakidis Konstantinos | en |
Creator | Κυριακιδης Κωνσταντινος | el |
Contributor [Thesis Supervisor] | Pnevmatikatos Dionysios | en |
Contributor [Thesis Supervisor] | Πνευματικατος Διονυσιος | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Dollas Apostolos | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Δολλας Αποστολος | el |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Papaefstathiou Ioannis | en |
Contributor [Committee Member] | Παπαευσταθιου Ιωαννης | el |
Publisher | Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης | el |
Publisher | Technical University of Crete | en |
Academic Unit | Technical University of Crete::School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | en |
Academic Unit | Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών | el |
Content Summary | Simulation is vital when developing novel software or hardware systems. Cycle accurate architectural simulators are extremely important tools for verifying experimental hardware platforms, system profiling, and advanced software development. Their main disadvantage is limited throughput when simulating large systems with multiple processing units and peripherals.
This Master’s thesis describes the development process of a series of HW components for Intel’s HARP CPU-FPGA hybrid platform, that will be used to synthesize a Trace-Driven FPGAAccelerated Full-System Architectural Simulator. Essential development steps and protocols, that are required to incorporate accelerators on the HARP platform, are also highlighted. The developed
modules, facilitate high-performance HW components that can accurately and efficiently simulate a highly configurable L1 Cache and 3 highly configurable Branch Predictor HW structures.
Optimal performance for the proposed HW simulator can be achieved when executed in coordination with a fast functional simulator running on SW. A state of the art API exports trace-data from the functional simulation at run time, in order to load the HW modules. Using these data, the HW modules can accurately and efficiently execute architectural simulation. Apart from simulation results and timing statistics, the models can generate the system’s state at different timestamps, depending on the executed traces. These architectural checkpoints can later be used to either validate the functionality of the components, determine the overall system’s behavior using the sampling technique, execute new architectural simulations, or to warm-up other full system simulations. | en |
Type of Item | Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή | el |
Type of Item | Master Thesis | en |
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
Date of Item | 2019-08-19 | - |
Date of Publication | 2019 | - |
Subject | HARP platform | en |
Subject | Hardware architecture | en |
Subject | Architectural simulation | en |
Subject | Trace-Driven | en |
Subject | Sampling | en |
Subject | Hybrid platform | en |
Subject | CCI-P | en |
Subject | System-States | en |
Subject | OPAE | en |
Subject | HARP | en |
Subject | AFU | en |
Subject | ASE | en |
Subject | FIU | en |
Subject | HW | en |
Subject | SW | en |
Subject | BPs | en |
Subject | API | en |
Bibliographic Citation | Konstantinos Kyriakidis, "Full system architectural simulation on the HARP integrated CPU-FPGA platform", Master Thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2019 | en |
Bibliographic Citation | Κωνσταντίνος Κυριακίδης, "Πλήρης αρχιτεκτονική προσομοίωση στην ενσωματωμένη CPU-FPGA πλατφόρμα HARP", Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή, Σχολή Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2019 | el |