Ahmet Murat Fiskiran

What I have done:

• Member of the MCB/ALAT design team during phase 1 (Team partner was Anoop Gupta).
• Read references to learn the details of the MCB. Read the Intel manuals to learn the details of the ALAT and how it differs from the generic MCB description.
• Studied the Lsim code for MCB/ALAT, decided to join these two into a single unit for the simulator.
• Designed the MCB interface for phase 1.
• Implemented the functions of the MCB. Wrote a random instruction stream generator to test/debug the MCB. The MCB is fully functional and works as planned across all parameter settings.
• Verified the functionality of the MCB using streams of up to 1 million instructions.

What I am doing now:

• Member of the verification team during phase 2 (Team partner is Johnson Wu).
• Currently working on the testing of the modules written by the teams during Phase1.
• Studied Lsim scripts and the details of full system simulation.
• Modified the Lsim parameter files to allow easier parameter overriding.
• Simulated the cache module using Lsim across different settings. Compared the results to the simulator output; the Lsim results closely matches simulator results.