Multimedia-application-driven instruction set architecture simulation

This paper presents an application-driven architecture-design approach. VLIW architectures and instruction set simulation were chosen to fulfill multimedia domain requirements and to implement an efficient Hw-Sw co-design tool. Innovative approaches such as pipeline status modeling, simulation cache, and simulation oriented Hw description have been described. The performance of simulation tests for two validation case studies (TI TMS320C62x and ST200) are reported.

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