MAGENTA: transaction-based statistical micro-architectural root-cause analysis

  • Authors:
  • Gila Kamhi;Alexander Novakovsky;Andreas Tiemeyer;Adriana Wolffberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Corporation, Haifa, Israel;Intel Corporation, Haifa, Israel;Intel Corporation, Haifa, Israel;Intel Corporation, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Adopting an ESL based design and validation methodology, we introduce a top-down approach for efficient debugging of microarchitectural specification and RTL implementation. Our solution is based on the formalism introduced by statistical transactional analysis that we call MAGENTA -- Modeling AGENT for Transactional Analysis. To the best of our knowledge, MAGENTA based root-cause analysis pioneers in the efficient characterization of the micro-architectural design misbehavior via abstraction of validation output by transactions and micro-architectural events.