High performance emulation

[摘要] The Stanford EMMY is examined as an emulation engine. Using the 360 emulator and the DELtran interpreter as examples, the performance of the current EMMY architecture is examined as a high performance emulation vehicle. The problems of using a sequential, vertically organized processor for high speed emulation are developed and discussed. A flexible control structure for high speed emulation studies is derived from an existing high performance processor. This structure issues a stream of microinstructions to a central command bus, allowing user-defined execution resources to execute them in overlapped fashion. These execution resources may be added or deleted with little or no processor rewiring.

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）