Application specific architecture design using ArchC

• Main Authors: Yun-Tse Tsai, 蔡昀澤
• Other Authors: Yi-wen Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95854794034959255300

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 資訊工程所 === 98 === The focus of this thesis is to customize a given specific application along with instruction set extension (ISE) and instruction/data cache subsystems to improve performance. This customization can be started from the given application programs in C and the MIPS R3000 as base processor. ArchC, a SystemC-based architecture description language (ADL), is employed to derive an optimized application specific architecture and the corresponding application codes, as well as the assembler and simulator. The influence of ISE on memory hierarchy has been investigated based on applications such as Sha, Dijkstra, and Djpg. The results show that some ISEs may increase the cache miss rate and ruin the performance improvement by the ISE.