Tools set:

• WARTS: Winsconsin Architectural Research Tool Set

Performance monitors:

• Pmon: access performance counters in Intel P6 processors
• VTune Tool: Intel's Performance Enhancement Environment
• perf-monitor: package for measuring low-level behavior on the UltraSPARC

Profilers:

• Digital Continuous Profiling Infrastructure

Processor simulators:

• SimpleScalar: Tools for simulation of modern processors
  A Tutorial.
• SimpleScalar v3.0
• SimOS: The Complete Machine Simulator
  User guide
  SimOS Alpha
  SimOS PPC
• RSIM: Rice University Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors.
• Molasses: Ultracomputer Simulator.
• SimICS: an instruction-set simulator and operating system emulator (Sparc V8 + SunOS 5.x)
• Simulation of Parallel Computer Architectures: a collection of links.
• Augmint: A multiprocessor simulator. Augmint is a public-domain execution-driven multiprocessor simulation environment for Intel x86 architectures, running UNIX or Windows NT. It is based on MINT, but takes the augmentation approach of Tangolite.
• Armadillo is a PowerPC (or other superscalar pipelined processor) simulator written in C++ by Brian Grayson.

Cache simulators:

• Dinero IV: Trace-Driven Uniprocessor Cache Simulator
• Cacti (Cache Access and Cycle Time Information) Simulator (v1.0 & v2.0)

Tracers:

• Shade: a tracer for SPARC applications
  Local Documentation for V5.33. The binaries are located in /home/projects/ljohn/Shade/Bin/ at the LRC Lab.
• SPA: Sparc Performance Analyzer. It is similar to Shade, but source code is provided under the GNU license.
• Atom: part of the OM Project, and is able to trace binary code on Alpha machines.
• TETRA: A Multi-platform Instruction Trace Analyzer
• Etch: an application program performance evaluation and optimization an application program performance evaluation and optimization. Lets you annotate existing binaries.
• Jaba: a Java Bytecode Analyzer. Allows the user to get a trace from the dynamic execution of bytecodes. Then an API similar to the Shade API allows the user to write different performance analyzers.

Benchmarks:

• Benchmarks FAQ
• SPEC
  SPEC CPU2000 reduced input sets
• A C++ Benchmark Suite
• LMbench
  Measures latency and bandwidth of the different levels of the memory hierarchy.
• Olden
  Used to test data structures
• STREAM by J. McAlpin. Tests memory bandwidth.

HDL Implementations:

• OpenCores is a repository of open source, free IP (intelectual property) synthesizable blocks and supplemental prototype boards. Most of the cores are currently under development but some are available.

Compilers:

• SUIF
• Trimaran: An Infrastructure for Research in Instruction-Level Parallelism
• Alto: A Link-Time (Code) Optimizer for the Compaq Alpha

Miscellaneous:

• LRC Labs

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