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The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation

The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation

by Shanqing Lin, Mohammad Alian, Babak Falsafi on Jun 8, 2026 | Tags:

Accurate timing simulation remains one of the most important tools in computer architecture, but modern systems have made cycle-level simulation increasingly impractical. Today’s platforms combine many-core CPUs, deep memory hierarchies, accelerators, complex I/O, and...

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