SIMD Multiprocessor System Simulator

This article describes how to develop a software test-bed to simulate the excution of instructions on a SIMD multiprocessor system. It gives a design including an instruction format for SIMD multiprocessor and a master processor that can fetch,decode,and execute the instructions. It also includes a clock to describe and mesuare the instruction cycles. Then, it gives two example programs on this SIMD system whichcould transpose a 4x4 integer matrix or multiply two 4x4 floating-point matrices. According to these example programs, it gives a perfomance model to measure the speed-up,efficiency and utilization of this system. At last, it discusses the main weakness and strengths of SIMD system and analyzes the possible improvements. I. PROJECT OVERVIEW In this project, I develop a software test-bed to simulate the execution of instructions on a SIMD multiprocessor system. The code is written in C++ and comiled with g++ in Linux Fedora 17 environment. The usage and its options are below: Usage:./simd Main Menu: Type 0 to enter a progra