Abstract: In the face of increasingly complex processor design and limited design cycles,how to efficiently and quickly perform performance evaluation is a problem faced by each processor design team.The complete performance test suite requires longer run time,especially in the pre-silicon validation phase,and the high time cost makes it impossible for the design team to use the full performance test suite for performance evaluation analysis.In this paper,a general processor Fast-Eval method based on the SimPoint technique,using the Fast Parallel-BBV method,the selection of the optimal simulation points and the thermal migration of the simulation points,significantly reduces the performance test time and BBV generation time.Experimental results show that the performance evaluation time of the ARM64 processor is reduced to16.88% ofthe original,and the performance evaluation time is reduced to 1.26% of the original,and the average relative error of the performance evaluation results is 0.53%.The ave-rage relative error of the test set on the FPGA board can reach 0.40%,and the running time is only 0.93% of the full running time.

Key words: Rapid BBV generation, Performance evaluation, SimPoint, Processor, Verification