-- Copyright (C) 2002 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc -- This file is part of VESTs (Vhdl tESTs). -- VESTs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it -- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the -- Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at -- your option) any later version. -- VESTs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT -- ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or -- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License -- for more details. -- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -- along with VESTs; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, -- Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA entity cache is generic ( cache_size, block_size, associativity : positive; benchmark_name : string(1 to 10) ); port ( halt : in bit ); end entity cache; architecture instrumented of cache is begin -- code from book cache_monitor : process is type measurement_record is record cache_size, block_size, associativity : positive; benchmark_name : string(1 to 10); miss_rate : real; ave_access_time : delay_length; end record; type measurement_file is file of measurement_record; file measurements : measurement_file open append_mode is "cache-measurements"; -- . . . -- not in book constant miss_count : natural := 100; constant total_accesses : natural := 1000; constant total_delay : delay_length := 2400 ns; -- end not in book begin -- . . . loop -- . . . -- not in book wait on halt; -- end not in book exit when halt = '1'; -- . . . end loop; write ( measurements, measurement_record'( -- write values of generics for this run cache_size, block_size, associativity, benchmark_name, -- calculate performance metrics miss_rate => real(miss_count) / real(total_accesses), ave_access_time => total_delay / total_accesses ) ); wait; end process cache_monitor; -- end code from book end architecture instrumented;