An Overview of Computer Architecture and System Simulation

This work presents an overview of the modeling and simulation challenges that currently exist in the area of computer architecture design. First, we describe the requirements that a modeling and simulation framework must have in this particular application domain. Then, we review different state-of-the-art frameworks that we have classified taking into account the kind of source system they model.

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