> This question is not really related to m5 but general multicore design. > > Since the number of processors in a multicorer system are constrained by > total chip area (400mm^2 for power4 etc), is there a way to estimate the area > of O3CPU based on certain parameters like size of LS Queues, reorder buffer > size. If anyone knows of methodology or some research regarding this, please > give suggestions.
There were several papers on complexity effective design about 5 or so years ago that got into this sort of thing. You should probably dig those up. That said, if you do plan to implement this sort of thing, I can probably help you figure out how to use the M5 config file to pass the configuration parameters directly to your model. Nate _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
