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Implemention Aspects of a SPARC V9 Complete Machine Simulator

Clarke, B., Czezowski, A. and Strazdins, P.

    In this paper we present work in progress in the development of a complete machine simulator for the UltraSPARC, an implementation of the SPARC V9 architecture. The complexity of the UltraSPARC ISA presents many challenges in developing a reliable and yet reasonably efficient implementation of such a simulator. Our implementation includes a heavily object-oriented design for the simulator modules and infrastructure, caching of repeated computations for performance, adding an OS (system call) emulation mode to the simulator and a variety of testing strategies. An ultimate and critical goal in constructing such an artifact is to successfully boot an existing operating system from it; we describe techniques implemented so far, and outline the remaining work and issues, in order to achieve this goal.
Cite as: Clarke, B., Czezowski, A. and Strazdins, P. (2002). Implemention Aspects of a SPARC V9 Complete Machine Simulator. In Proc. Twenty-Fifth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2002), Melbourne, Australia. CRPIT, 4. Oudshoorn, M. J., Ed. ACS. 23-32.
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