Hardware Experiments on nCUBE 2S

• Following information obtained by running HINT on nCUBE 2S.

• Different compiler optimizations were tested for a net QUIPS gain.

• Executed by Don Heller .

• Click on the appropriate net MQUIPS to view the graph.

• A graph comparing all results may be view by clicking the percent improvement.

• Constants: memory fast, page mode memory access on, and cache on.

  Memory Size 4 MB 16 MB net MQUIPS 0.41 0.46 improvement 12.7%

• Constants: memory size 16 MB, page mode memory access on, cache on.

  Memory Speed slow medium fast net MQUIPS 0.36 0.40 0.46 improvement 9.4% 14.3% improvement 25.1%

• Constants: memory size 16 MB, memory fast & cache on.

  Page Mode Memory Access Off On net MQUIPS 0.31 0.46 improvement 47.8%

• Constants: memory size 16 MB, memory fast & page mode memory access on.

  Data Cache Off On net MQUIPS 0.39 0.46 improvement 18.5%