Figure 1. My prompt to Gemini: "please generate a banner image suitable for a 'how to write a microarchitecture specification' blog post." Architecture and microarchitecture are two different levels of abstraction. The former is about the hardware/software interface; the latter is …

It appears that a good number of people found my articles from 2013 on building gem5 and SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks for Alpha useful! So due to some requests I’ve decided to make an additional post on how to get the SPEC benchmarks and gem5 you set up actually running. This tutorial will show you how …