RSIM USER'S GUIDE

 

• Installing RSIM
  • Unpacking the RSIM software distribution
  • Building the RSIM simulator
  • Building the RSIM applications library
  • Building applications ported to RSIM
    • Using the generic makefile
    • Using ordinary UNIX command sequences
  • Statistics processing utilities
• Architectural Model
  • RSIM instruction set architecture
  • Processor microarchitecture
    • Pipeline stage details
    • Branch prediction
    • Processor memory unit
    • Exception handling
  • RSIM memory and network systems
• Configuring RSIM
  • Command line options
    • Processor parameters
    • Memory unit parameters
    • Cache parameters
    • Approximate simulation models
    • Other architectural configuration parameters
    • Parameters related to simulation input/output
    • Simulator control and debugging
  • Configuration file
    • Overall system parameters
    • Processor parameters
    • Cache hierarchy parameters
    • Bus parameters
    • Directory and memory parameters
    • Interconnection network parameters
    • Queue sizes connecting memory and network modules
  • Compile-time parameters
• Porting Applications to RSIM
  • Process creation and shared memory model
  • RSIM applications library
  • Synchronization support for multiprocessor applications
  • Statistics collection
  • Performance tuning
  • Options to improve simulation speed
    • Moving data initialization offline
    • Avoiding memory system simulation
• Statistics Collection and Debugging
  • Statistics collection
    • Overall performance statistics
    • Processor statistics
    • Cache, network, and memory statistics
  • Utilities to process statistics
    • The stats and pstats programs
    • The plotall program
    • The stats_miss program
    • The MSHR program
  • Debugging
    • Support for debugging RSIM
    • Debugging applications