EIS research associates M.Sc. Fabian Stuckmann and M.Sc. Moritz Weißbrich will present their research at this year's International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST) on Electronics and Communications. MOCAST will be held virtually from July 05 to 07.
M.Sc. Fabian Stuckmann presents his work "PATARA: A REVERSI-Based Open-Source Tool for Post-Silicon Validation of Processor Cores." PATARA is an open-source tool for post-silicon validation of fabricated processors. It is based on the REVERSI methodology, where the processor validates itself. The validation process is performed with random data and random instructions.
M.Sc. Moritz Weißbrich, on the other hand, presents his open-source tool Vanaga with the paper title "Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize the Instruction-Set Encoding on Processor Cores". VANAGA is an open source framework written in Python for automatically optimizing the instruction set encoding of processor architectures. A single-objective or multi-objective genetic algorithm (GA) is used for this purpose. The optimization metrics (e.g. silicon area of the instruction decoder, power dissipation of the processor logic) are customizable by the user.