nML - the next generation

• A Generic Approach to Performance Modeling and Its Application to Simulator Generator (Thesis) V. Rajesh, Roll Number: 9611123 August, 1998
  An integrated environment for performance modeling is desirable in the present era of specification driven system design. With the complexity and the number of processors increasing rapidly, it is important to have a generic environment wherein the performance can be measured for a given processor on a given application. In this thesis, a simple, elegant and powerful language Sim-nML has been designed for performance modeling. Sim-nML acts as the specification language for a processor performance model in a generic way. As part of this thesis work, a generator for processor instruction set simulator is designed and implemented. The simulator generator takes Sim-nML specifications of a uniprocessor machine as input and produces code for the simulator. The performance simulator thus generated is an important tool in system design environment as it is useful to study the performance impact due to various design trade-offs.
• CS851-Machine Description for Machine-Level Tools Fall 1999 or Spring 2000 (Seminar) The nML description language has been used to derive simulators, etc.
• Sim-nML at Cadence Research Center at IIT Kanpur (India)
• Chess/Checkers at DAC 1999 A press release describing the current state of the art at Target Compiler Technologies.