MIT Researchers aim for 100+ core chip design using improved chip simulator

Researchers at MIT have refined a software-based chip simulator that tests chip designs with large numbers of cores for flaws, adding the ability to measure designs' potential power consumption, as well as processing times for tasks, memory access, and core-to-core communications patterns. The team from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is using the simulator to test possible designs for a new processor targeted for fabrication later this year—one that they hope will have over 100 cores.