Facilities & Tools
Laboratory Facilities
The LaCASA Laboratory is located in the Engineering Building, Room 229.
- Computing equipment. The laboratory is equipped with 15 PC workstations (double boot RedHat Fedora 2 / Windows 2000) and several Sun Ultra workstations. These computers support architectural simulation software, development tools for application software, tools for performance analysis, tools for embedded systems/sensor nodes software development, and commercial CAD tools for hardware design and rapid prototyping. We have also access to a 24-node cluster machine.
- Prototyping Hardware: The laboratory have several prototyping platforms featuring various Xilinx CPLDs and FPGA devices (Cool Runner 2, Spartan 2, Spartan 3, Virtex 1000, Virtex 2 Pro). The prototyping stations feature all necessary software tools for logic desing, simulation, application software development, and programming of logic devices.
- Test/Measurement Equipment: The laboratory is equiped with oscilloscopes, signal generators, digitial multimeters, digital acquisition cards, and sensors as well as with the corresponding software for various test and measurement tasks.
Software
- Architectural Simulation. We use the following tools. For some we implemented a number of enhancements to support our research (e.g. in sim-cache, sim-outorder, .... in SimpleScalar).
- SimpleScalar: http://www.simplescalar.com/
- SimpleScalar Version 4.0 Test Releases: http://www.simplescalar.com/v4test.html
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- Benchmarks
- MiBench Embedded Benchmark Suite: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mibench/
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC): http://www.spec.org/
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- Tools for Performance Evaluation / Analysis
- VTune Performance Analyzers: http://www.intel.com/software/products/vtune/
- Performance Application Programming Interface (UTK): http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projects/papi/
- CAD/EDA tools
- Mentor Graphics (FPGA Advanctage, ModelSim, LeonardoSpectrum, Precision Synthesis)
- CADENCE integrated circuit tool suite
- Xilinx ISE, EDK
- Synopsys
- Embedded Systems / Wireless Sensor Networks
- TinyOS
- ARM-GCC
- MSP430-GCC
- IAR (MSP430)
Tutorials
- SimpleScalar Tool Set
- Designing a simple CPU in 60 minutes
- CADENCE tutorials
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- Mentor tutorials
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