ABSCISS

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ABSCISS

• Assembly-Based System for
• Compiled Instruction-Set Simulation
• Ronan Amicel
• François Bodin
• CAPS group
• IRISA, Rennes, France

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ABSCISS Goals

• Fast instruction-set simulation
• run real-world programs
• performance analysis
• Easy retargeting
• instruction-set tuning
• VLIW processors

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ABSCISS Overview

• Generator of compiled simulators
• assembly program ? C/C simulator
• Retargetable
• extended Salto machine description
• High Performance
• about 6M cycles/s overall on UltraSparc
• execution is up to 40M cycles/s(100x faster than
  interpretation)