Adaptive Simulation with Virtual Prototypes for RISC-V: Switching Between Fast and Accurate at Runtime
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Recently, Virtual Prototypes (VPs) were introduced
for the emerging RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and
become an important part of the growing RISC-V ecosystem.
A central component of the VP is the Instruction Set Simulator
(ISS). VPs should provide a high performance and at the same
time yield accurate results, which are conflicting requirements.
To tackle this problem, we present an efficient VP-based
adaptive simulation that is tailored for the RISC-V ISA and
allows to seamlessly switch the accuracy setting in the ISS at
runtime. This enables to selectively simulate the application as
fast as possible and as accurate as necessary. In this paper we
focus on the performance impact of different accuracy settings
and leave the evaluation of accuracy results for future work. Our
RISC-V experiments demonstrate that up-to 543x speed-up is
possible with a JIT-based setting in the ISS.
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