All Project Publications

Structural Simulation for Architecture Exploration
David I. August, Veerle Desmet, Silvain Girbal, Daniel Gracia Pérez, and Olivier Temam
Processor and System-on-Chip Simulation (ISBN: 978-1441961747)
Edited by Rainer Leupers and Olivier Temam. Springer, September 2010.

UNISIM: An Open Simulation Environment and Library for Complex Architecture Design and Collaborative Development [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
David I. August, Jonathan Chang, Sylvain Girbal, Daniel Gracia-Perez, Gilles Mouchard, David Penry, Olivier Temam, and Neil Vachharajani
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), September 2007.

The Acceleration of Structural Microarchitectural Simulation via Scheduling [abstract] (PDF)
David A. Penry
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, November 2006.

The Liberty Simulation Environment: A Deliberate Approach to High-Level System Modeling [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason A. Blome, Sharad Malik, and David I. August
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 24, Number 3, August 2006.
Accept Rate: 16%

Exploiting Parallelism and Structure to Accelerate the Simulation of Chip Multi-processors [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
David A. Penry, Daniel Fay, David Hodgdon, Ryan Wells, Graham Schelle, David I. August, and Daniel A. Connors
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2006.
Accept Rate: 15% (26/172).

Achieving Structural and Composable Modeling of Complex Systems [abstract] (SpringerLink, PDF)
David I. August, Sharad Malik, Li-Shiuan Peh, Vijay Pai, Manish Vachharajani, and Paul Willmann
The International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Volume 33, June 2005. Invited.

Rapid Development of Flexible Validated Processor Models [abstract] (PDF)
David A. Penry, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation (MoBS), June 2005.
Accept Rate: 45% (10/22).

Rapid Development of Flexible Validated Processor Models [abstract] (PDF)
David A. Penry, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 04-03, November 2004.

Microarchitecture Modeling for Design-space Exploration [abstract] (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, November 2004.

Facilitating Reuse in Hardware Models with Enhanced Type Inference [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, Sharad Malik, and David I. August
The IEEE/ACM/IFIP Second International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (ISSS), September 2004.
Accept Rate: 24% (39/159).

The Liberty Structural Specification Language: A High-Level Modeling Language for Component Reuse [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2004.
Accept Rate: 19% (25/128).

The Liberty Simulation Environment, Version 1.0 [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason Blome, and David I. August
Performance Evaluation Review: Special Issue on Tools for Architecture Research (PER), Volume 31, Number 4, March 2004. Invited.

The Liberty Simulation Environment: A Deliberate Approach to High-Level System Modeling [abstract] (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason A. Blome, Sharad Malik, and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 04-02, March 2004.

A Study of the Clarity of Functionally and Structurally Composed High-level Simulation Models (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 04-01, January 2004.

Liberty Simulation Environment, Version 1.0
Manish Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Neil Vachharajani, Jason A. Blome, and David I. August
Available at http://liberty.princeton.edu/Software/LSE, December 2003.

A Comparison of Reuse in Object-oriented Programming and Structural Modeling Systems [abstract] (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 03-01, October 2003.

The Liberty Simulation Environment as a Pedagogical Tool [abstract] (PDF)
Jason Blome, Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE), June 2003.

Optimizations for a Simulator Construction System Supporting Reusable Components [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
David A. Penry and David I. August
Proceedings of the 40th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2003.
Accept Rate: 24% (152/628).

Microarchitectural Exploration with Liberty [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason A. Blome, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2002.
Accept Rate: 24% (36/150).
Winner Best Student Paper Award.

A Disciplined Approach to the Development of Platform Architectures [abstract] (CiteSeerX, PDF)
David I. August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, and A. Richard Newton
Microelectronics Journal, Volume 33, Number 11, November 2002. Invited.

Design Tools for Application Specific Embedded Processors [abstract] (SpringerLink, PDF)
Wei Qin, Subramanian Rajagopalan, Manish Vachharajani, Hangsheng Wang, Xinping Zhu, David I. August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, and Li-Shiuan Peh
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Embedded Software, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EMSOFT), Volume 2491, October 2002. Invited.

A Disciplined Approach to the Development of Platform Architectures [abstract] (PDF, Elsevier)
David I. August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, and A. Richard Newton
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Synthesis and System Integration of Mixed Technologies (SASIMI), April 2001. Invited.