Behavioral characterization of decoupled access/execute architecture
Daniel Windheiser, William Jalby · 1991
This paper presents a behavioral characterization methodology highlighting the effects of fine-grain parallelism features and memory hierarchies in scalar uniprocessors.This method is illustrated on a decoupled/access execute (DAE) architecture, the Astronautics ZS-1.DAE architectures are hard to analyze due to the complexity of their organization and provide an interesting target for a performance analysis study.However, our method is general and could be extended to the IBM RISC RS/6000 processor as well as othe~superscalar processors.