Report Number: CSL-TR-75-102
Institution: Stanford University, Computer Systems Laboratory
Title: High performance emulation
Author: Wallach, Walter A. Jr.
Date: November 1975
Abstract: The Stanford EMMY is examined as an emulation engine. Using the 360 emulator and the DELtran interpreter as examples, the performance of the current EMMY architecture is examined as a high performance emulation vehicle. The problems of using a sequential, vertically organized processor for high speed emulation are developed and discussed. A flexible control structure for high speed emulation studies is derived from an existing high performance processor. This structure issues a stream of microinstructions to a central command bus, allowing user-defined execution resources to execute them in overlapped fashion. These execution resources may be added or deleted with little or no processor rewiring.
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