9.5 Modeling and Simulation of Extra-Functional Properties

This session deals with modeling and simulating extra-functional system properties. The first paper presents a framework to accurately model the power and timing of hardware models without requiring a full micro-architectural simulation of the hardware module to extract signal transitions. The second paper presents a method to extend Design Space Exploration (DSE) of systems with Out-of-Order execution by accurately predicting the performance of CPUs with different cache configurations within reasonable time. The third paper is about an approach that constructs a learning-based thermal model for a given (black-box) multi-core processor running a given application mix.