IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers@ Inc.
Scope
The scope of the standard includes performance estimation accuracy for complex processors like Very 6 Long Instruction Word (VLIW) core and complex contention scenarios@ description of caches to include 7 uncached memory regions and caches for subsets of memories@ properties for coarse power consumption 8 estimation@ and reusability by separating eXtensible Markup Language (XML) files for processor 9 description and other memory/communication-related information. Purpose The Software-Hardware Interface for Multi-many-core (SHIM)@ is to define an architecture description standard from the software design perspective - this provides a common interface that abstracts the hardware properties that are critical to enable multicore tools.