多核处理器体系结构软件仿真技术：研究综述

Multi-core Architecture Simulation:A Survey

由于单核处理器的处理能力已经接近极限,很难再有提高,人们将目光投向了多核处理器体系结构。在处理器体系结构的设计中,体系结构软件仿真技术是最重要的一个方面。本文首先介绍处理器体系结构仿真技术的概念、分类、目的和意义,然后讨论多核处理器体系结构仿真技术的现状和面临的问题;分析了多核处理器软件仿真技术的复杂性;比较和分析了当前主流技术的优缺点。由于多核处理器体系结构的研究处于初期阶段,因此多核处理器体系结构仿真领域面临着诸多挑战和机遇。本文最后指出了多核处理器体系结构软件仿真技术今后的研究方向。

Since it is very difficult to promote the throughput of a single-core processor nowadays, the multi-core processor architecture is paid much attention to by computer architects, In processor architecture design, the most important activity is to use software to simulate the processor architecture. This paper firstly introduces the concepts, classification, purpose and advantages of architecture simulation. Then it tries to analyze the complexity of multi-core architecture simulation. After that, the advantages and disadvantages of some major popular simulation techniques are described in this paper. As the research of multi-core processor is still in its infant stage, there are a lot of challenges in multi-core simulation area Therefore, the future promising research directions are also discussed in the last part of the paper.