[LLVMdev] Advice on architecture research project?

[Jim Grosbach]

Hi Ben,

ARM is a reasonable candidate. MIPS would also likely be a good option.

-Jim
On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Benjamin Ylvisaker wrote:

> I am interested in working on a little architecture project that  
> involves modifying an ISA in some non-trivial ways and seeing what  
> impact it has on instruction frequencies (and other such metrics).   
> Clearly I'll need to hack on a compiler backend, and I thought that  
> LLVM might be a good choice since among mature compiler  
> infrastructures it's fairly young and presumably relatively clean.  I  
> will also need to choose an ISA and a functional simulator (which I  
> will also need to hack) for the evaluation.  I'm not particularly  
> interested in micro-architecture level accuracy, so I'd rather avoid  
> that complexity if possible.  I think I'd rather start with an ISA  
> more in the RISC family.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion about ISAs for which there is a good  
> LLVM backend and an open source/customizable functional simulator?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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