Performance Modeling
If you like applying Performance Modeling, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Custom Accelerator Sketch for an Image-Processing Pipeline
Read the current C reference implementation of the 5x5 Gaussian blur (provided). Sketch a parallel datapath that produces 1 output pixel per cycle using a sliding 5x5 window ove…
- Hardware Accelerators
- Datapath Design
- Performance Modeling
Computer Architecture - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cache Configuration Study for a Memory-Bound Workload
Profile the existing inner loop on a workstation with perf to baseline L1/L2/L3 miss rates and miss latencies. Run the same loop through gem5's classic cache model under 6 confi…
- Caches
- Memory Subsystems
- Performance Modeling
Computer Architecture
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