3 papers
cs.AR2026
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…
cs.PF2026
SPEC CPU: The Next Generation
Mahesh Madhav, Allen Lee, Andres Mejia +33
The march toward developing relevant and robust CPU benchmarks continues with the introduction of SPEC CPU 2026, the next generation suite for measuring processor performance. This…
cs.AR2025
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…