The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation (opens in new tab)

The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation Accurate timing simulation remains one of the most important tools in computer architecture, but modern systems have made cycle-level simulation increasingly impractical. Today’s platforms combine many-core CPUs, deep memory hierarchies, accelerators, complex I/O, and large software stacks, making detailed simulation extremely slow—often requiring months to simulate seconds of […]