• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.78-83
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• 2023

This paper proposes a lightweight trace-driven Processing-In-Memory (PIM) simulator, TP-Sim. TP-Sim is a General Purpose PIM (GP-PIM) simulator that evaluates various PIM system performance-related metrics. Based on instruction and memory traces extracted from the Intel Pin tool, TP-Sim can replay trace files for multiple models of PIM architectures to compare its performance. To verify the availability of TP-Sim, we estimated three different system configurations on the STREAM benchmark. Compared to the traditional Host CPU-only systems with conventional memory hierarchy, simple GP-PIM architecture achieved better performance; even the Host CPU has the same number of in-order cores. For further study, we also extend TP-Sim as a part of a heterogeneous system simulator that contains CPU, GPGPU, and PIM as its primary and co-processors.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.191-196
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• 2016

Recently, power dissipation is a very significant issue not only in embedded systems and mobile devices but also in high-end modern processors. Especially, by the prevalent use of smart phones and tablet PCs, low power consumption of microprocessors is requisite. In this paper, a fast power measurement tool for a high performance microprocessor based on the trace-driven simulator has been developed. The power model of the microprocessor consists of complex combinational circuits, array structures, and CAM structures. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed to estimate the average power dissipation of each program.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.9-13
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• 2012

In order to overcome the complexity and power problems of superscalar processors, the multi-core architecture has been prevalent recently. Although the execution-driven simulation is wide spread, the trace-driven simulation has speed advantages over the execution-driven simulation. We present a methodology to simulate multi-core architecture using trace-driven simulator. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed for the cores ranging from 2 to 16 extensively. As a result, the 16-core processor resulted in 4.1 IPC and 13.3 times speed up over single-core processor on the average.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.251-256
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• 2017

Recently, multicore processor system is widely adopted not only in general purpose computers but also in embedded systems and mobile devices in order to improve performance. Since the power dissipation issue of multicore processor system is very significant, it must be estimated accurately in the early design stage. In this paper, a fast power analysis tool for a high performance multicore processor based on the trace-driven simulator has been developed. To achieve it, the power dissipation of each hardware unit per core are added. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed to estimate the average power dissipation per instruction.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.169-175
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• 2018

Recently, power dissipation issue is very significant not only in high-end modern processors but also in embedded systems and mobile devices. Based on the power dissipation, hardware and software designers can correctly find the power/performance tradeoffs. Most power analysis tools calculate power dissipation when chip layout or floor planning are finished. In this paper, a trace-driven simulator that can interact with power analysis tool for an embedded microprocessor has been developed. Using MiBench embedded benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed to estimate the average power dissipation which is faster than the conventional tools.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.219-224
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• 2017

Recently, the importance of DRAM is very significant not only in embedded systems and mobile devices but also in high-end modern microprocessors and multicore processors. To keep up with this, both industry and academia have actively studied various types of future DRAMs. Therefore, accurate DRAM model is requisite when evaluating the microprocessor performance. In this paper, a microprocessor trace-driven simulator which can couple with the cycle-accurate DRAM simulator has been developed. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the effect of cycle-accurate DDR3 model on the microprocessor performance has been evaluated.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.203-208
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• 2017

Recently, the importance of DRAM is very significant in multicore processors which are widely used in computers, laptops, tablet PCs, and mobile devices. To keep up with this, both industry and academia have actively studied various types of future DRAMs. Therefore, accurate DRAM model is requisite when evaluating the multicore processor performance. In this paper, a multicore processor trace-driven simulator which can couple with the cycle-accurate DRAM simulator has been developed. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the effect of cycle-accurate DDR3 model on the multicore processor performance has been evaluated.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1987.07b
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• pp.1577-1580
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• 1987

This paper proposes a gate and functional level logic simulator which can be run on XENIX O.S. The simulator has hierarchical structure including Hardware Description Language compiler, Waveform Description Language compiler, and Simulation Command Language compiler. The Hardware Description Language compiler generates data structure composed of gate structure, wire structure, condition structure, and event structure. Simulation algorithm is composed of selective trace and event-driven methods. To improve simulation speed, Cross Referenced Linked List Structure ia defined in building the data structure of circuits.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 1987

개인용 전자자동설계 시스팀인 EDAS_P의 schematic으로부터 직접 디지틀 회로의 논리동작을 시뮬레이션할 수 있는 게이트 레벨 논리 시뮬레이터(GLSIM_P)를 IBM PC에서 C언어를 이용하여 개발하였다. 다룰수 있는 소자로는 input clock, 일반 게이트 및 clocked 게이트, ROM, RAM, PLA등이다. 논리신호 레벨은 1, 0,*(intermediate)이다. 효율적인 논리해석을 위해 selective trace 및 event driven 방식을 도입하였으며 게이트 500개 정도까지 해석이 가능하다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.1_2
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• pp.125-134
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• 2004

Recently, an on-chip compressed cache system was presented to alleviate the processor-memory Performance gap by reducing on-chip cache miss rate and expanding memory bandwidth. This research Presents an extended on-chip compressed cache system which also significantly expands main memory capacity. Several techniques are attempted to expand main memory capacity, on-chip cache capacity, and memory bandwidth as well as reduce decompression time and metadata size. To evaluate the performance of our proposed system over existing systems, we use execution-driven simulation method by modifying a superscalar microprocessor simulator. Our experimental methodology has higher accuracy than previous trace-driven simulation method. The simulation results show that our proposed system reduces execution time by 4-23% compared with conventional memory system without considering the benefits obtained from main memory expansion. The expansion rates of data and code areas of main memory are 57-120% and 27-36%, respectively.