4 papers
Adaptation Fidelity of SPEC CPU2026
Doa'a Al-Otoom, Mahesh Madhav
Standardized benchmarks are often criticized for not being "real workloads," but this critique is rarely backed by data. This paper provides the first systematic, quantitative anal…
Performance Verification of the AmpereOne CPU Core
Doa'a Al-Otoom, Nicholas Kelly, Aaron Lindsay +16
As process technology scaling slows, microarchitectural innovation has become the primary driver of performance gains, making pre-silicon Performance Verification (PV) more critica…
ARM MTE Performance in Practice (Extended Version)
Taehyun Noh, Yingchen Wang, Tal Garfinkel +4
We present the first comprehensive analysis of ARM MTE hardware performance on four different microarchitectures: ARM Big (A7x), Little (A5x), and Performance (Cortex-X) cores on t…
Memory Access Vectors: Improving Sampling Fidelity for CPU Performance Simulations
Sriyash Caculo, Mahesh Madhav, Jeff Baxter
Accurate performance projection of large-scale benchmarks is essential for CPU architects to evaluate and optimize future processor designs. SimPoint sampling, which uses Basic Blo…