Turandot is a Power-PC based highly parameterized superscalar processor model suitable for exploring limits and potentials of alternative features in microprocessors. The model supports
trace-driven simulation with static and dynamically generated traces, is capable of taking into
account the effects of instructions executed speculatively, and allows exploring many features such
as instruction-level parallelism, issuing policy, issue width, number and size of the resources, cache
sizes, and many more. The model is characterized by its speed (in excess of 100 million simulated
processor cycles per hour), and its flexibility within the domain of superscalar processor organiza-tions
considered. This User’s Guide provides basic information on models built using Turandot which are already available, how to execute these models, how to interpret the results generated by the models, and how to build new models with different microarchitecture features.
By: Jaime Moreno, Mayan Moudgill
Published in: RC21968 in 2001
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