CS597a - Project Report

David Penry

What I've done

Value predictor

Researched current value prediction proposals (with rjoseph)

Defined Phase One value predictor interface (with rjoseph)

Defined Phase Two value predictor interface

Integration

• Defined vague instructions on converting operations to ports
• Determined simulator framework API (with manishv)
• Implemented first ugly hack of simulator framework API
• Experimented with methods to link exe.c with the simulator code itself

What I'm working on

• Defining a generic instruction fetch unit
• Defining a generic in-order decode/issue unit
• Determining how to put modules together to make a model of a simple processor
• Defining query interface