about SAM
I am a fresh in hardware design. I'm interested in the the opensparc architechure and its simulator .I have downloaded the SAM Package from the opensparc links. But the SAM related documents I found are limited. So, I have some questions.
1 Is the SAM a cycle-accurate simulator for architecture researchers?
2 I can not locate the workloads for the simulator and So where can I find it?Only the solaris10 image?
3 Have the HyperPreviliged layer implemented in the Model?
4 Can the thread-strand mapping method be modified and how?
I appreciate those who can give me some answers
[618 byte] By [
Franklina] at [2007-11-27 5:38:43]
# 1
Hi,
(1) SAM is a functional simulator, there is no cycle-accurate simulator in OpenSparc package. Several groups in the OpenSparc community have been talking about implementing cycle-accurate simulator(s), you are more than welcome to join the effort.
(2) the included disk image is a simple Solaris boot image, the file itself has about 200M free space, you can modify the disk image to include your favor workload(s). The modification procedure is described in README.legion section 6.
(3) Yes, hypervisor layer is implemented. The hypervisor source code is available under hypervisor directory.
(4) I am not sure I understand your question here.
Jhychun
