Experimental Environment



  • Simulator:
  • Enhanced Simscalar 3.0, which incorporates reconfiguration characteristics such as Victim Cache, Stream Buffer, Adaptive Line Size and Fetch Size. Please contact: wtang@ics.uci.edu for more details about it.

  • Compiling Environment:
  • Under SUN Ultra5, using gcc offered in simscalar suite, plus the following flags: -O4.

  • Baseline Organization:
  • Cache Size Assoc Line Size
    I1 Cache 32 KB 2 32 B
    D1 Cache 32 KB 2 32 B
    D2/I2 Cache 1 MB 2 64 B

  • Victim Cache Configuration:
  • Cache Set Size Assoc Line Size
    D1 Victim Cache: 1 32 32 B

  • Stream Buffer Configuration :
  • Cache Number of SB Depth Line Size
    D1 Stream Buffer: 4 4 32 B
    D2 Stream Buffer: 4 4 64 B

  • Number of Instruction Simulated:
  • 3 Billion