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In this thesis, we disscus the issues of superscalar based
shared-memory multiprocessor design. And we have developed a
simulation system named SMSTS (Supersacalar based
Multiprocessor Simulation and Tracing System) as an useful
environment for exploring some important design issues. SMSTS
is a software Simulation based on superscalar PE (Processor
Element) for shared-memory multiprocessor system. It's used to
obtain data and generate parallel program's traces for
evaluating the multiprocessor system and behavior of
superscalar PE. The supersclar PE is retargetable by the
description of machine SPEC, and can link with variable
architecture simulator for each M.P. environment. Our simulator
is designed by a parallel timing control model, that can be
built in a workstation or easily port to multi-workstations in
the future. It provides a flexible simulation environment for
the discuss on different O.S. , M.P. memory architecture, and
PE models.SMTS also provides system designer a non-instructive
debugging and monitoring environment. We have already used it
to evaluate our designed superscalar M.P. system, including the
issues of communication overhead, superscalar instruction
parallelism, memory latency, latency hidden ... and so on, then
propose some design criterions for the superscalar M.P. system.
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