PTLsim User's Guide

• Introducing PTLsim
  • Introducing PTLsim
  • History
  
  
• Getting Started
  • Documentation Map
  • Additional Resources
  
  
• PTLsim Architecture
• PTLsim Code Base
  • Code Base Overview
  • Common Libraries and Logic Design APIs
    • General Purpose Macros
    • Super Standard Template Library (SuperSTL)
    • Logic Standard Template Library (LogicSTL)
    • Miscellaneous Code
  
  
• x86 Instructions and Micro-Ops (uops)
  • Micro-Ops (uops) and TransOps
  • Load-Execute-Store Operations
  • Operation Sizes
  • Flags Management and Register Renaming
  • x86-64
  • Unaligned Loads and Stores
  • Repeated String Operations
  • Checks and SkipBlocks
  • Shifts and Rotates
  • SSE Support
  • x87 Floating Point
  • Floating Point Unavailable Exceptions
  • Assists
  
  
• Decoder Architecture and Basic Block Cache
  • Basic Block Cache
  • Identifying Basic Blocks
  • Invalid Translations
  • Self Modifying Code
  • Memory Management of the Basic Block Cache
  
  
• PTLsim Support Subsystems
  • Uop Implementations
  • Configuration Parser
  • Memory Manager
    • Memory Pools
    • Garbage Collection and Reclaim Mechanism
  
  
• Statistics Collection and Analysis
  • PTLsim Statistics Data Store
    • Introduction
    • Node Attributes
    • Configuration Options
  • PTLstats: Statistics Analysis and Graphing Tools
  • Snapshot Selection
  • Working with Statistics Trees: Collection, Averaging and Summing
  • Traversal and Printing Options
  • Table Generation
    • Bargraph Generation
  • Histogram Generation
  
  
• Benchmarking Techniques
  • Trigger Mode and other PTLsim Calls From User Code
  • Notes on Benchmarking Methodology and ``IPC''
  • Simulation Warmup Periods
  • Sequential Mode