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- From: mjohnson@netcom2.Netcom.COM (Mark Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
- Subject: Re: Information about Pixie file formats
- Message-ID: <MJOHNSON.92Dec18073144@netcom2.Netcom.COM>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:31:44 GMT
- References: <1grnu9INNh9h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Sender: mjohnson@netcom.com (Mark Johnson)
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- In-Reply-To: leslie@cse.ucsc.edu's message of 18 Dec 1992 05:35:05 GMT
-
- In article <1grnu9INNh9h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> leslie@cse.ucsc.edu (Leslie Grate) writes:
-
- > I am looking for the file formats of the files generated by
- > pixie, the MIPS code analysis tool.
- > Specifically, the .Addrs and the .Counts files.
-
-
- I believe MIPS/SGI *sells* (i.e. doesn't give away) a bundle of
- software called "SPP" which enables you to untangle these file
- formats. It's aimed at hardware designers who are engineering
- a complete system, and it includes a cache simulator to let
- them explore (using pixie et al) the cycle-by-cycle tradeoffs
- of cache design parameters: size, associativity, blocksize,
- latency to main memory, stall-on-miss, snooping overhead, etc.
-
- For freebies there is (reputedly) a pixie work-alike from
- the University of Wisconsin at Chippewa Falls, distributed
- in source code form. So you automatically get the pixie-like
- file formats at no extra cost :-).
-