[HiPEAC-announce] PACT Tutorial on the UNISIM Cell Simulator

[Alex Ramirez]

To be presented during PACT 2007,
Brasov, Romania
September 15-19, 2007

CellSim: a Modular Simulator for Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessors

Instructor: Alex Ramirez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)

Full Day, Saturday, September 15, 2007

This tutorial presents CellSim, a source-level compatible modular simulator 
of the Cell processor architecture built on the UNISIM platform. The 
modular nature of the simulator makes it very flexible, and is targeted at 
wide exploration of heterogeneous chip multiprocessors. The first part of 
the tutorial will cover installation of the simulator, generation of code 
for the simulator, and the actual simulation of code. The second part will 
deal with modification of the simulator to explore changes in the 
architecture. Finally, we will cover joint modifications to the simulator 
and the gcc compiler to explore ISA extensions.