https://markgottscho.com/tags/spec/ Recent content in Spec on Mark Gottscho, Ph.D. Hugo en-US Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://markgottscho.com/posts/2024/02/20/uarch-spec-template/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://markgottscho.com/posts/2024/02/20/uarch-spec-template/ <div class="imageblock text-center"> <div class="content"> <img src="https://markgottscho.com/images/2024/02/20/banner.jpeg" alt="banner" width="800"/> </div> <div class="title">Figure 1. My prompt to Gemini: &#34;please generate a banner image suitable for a &#39;how to write a microarchitecture specification&#39; blog post.&#34;</div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Architecture and microarchitecture are two different levels of abstraction. The former is about the hardware/software interface; the latter is about the hardware implementation. The microarchitect crafts a source of truth for the hardware team to anchor their work on.</p> </div> https://markgottscho.com/posts/2014/09/20/tutorial-easily-running-spec-cpu2006-benchmarks-in-the-gem5-simulator/ Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://markgottscho.com/posts/2014/09/20/tutorial-easily-running-spec-cpu2006-benchmarks-in-the-gem5-simulator/ <div class="paragraph"> <p>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.</p> </div>