Running the simulator for lab 5:<br><br>

1. Enter the superscalar factor, renaming entries, reorder entries. Make 
sure the trace file is compress.tra:<br>
<img src="p6.jpg"><br><br>

2. In the Execution tab, select "Standard" execution architecture, "Distributed" reservation architecture, and then enter the number of functional units and reservation stations:<br>
<img src="p7.jpg"><br><br>

3. In the memory/branching tab, select "L1,L2, and System" memory architecture, and the following values for the memory and branching parameters (these are defined in the lab handout). You can save these settings so you don't have to enter them each time by clicking on the "Save" button:<br>
<img src="p1.jpg"><br><br>

4. To save your setting, click "ok". Make sure the file name is "default_cfg.xml". The settings in this file are loaded in automatically.<br>
<img src="p2.jpg"><br><br>

5. Click "Apply" to start the simulations:<br>
<img src="p3.jpg"><br><br>

6. Click the simulate-to-end-of-trace button (the button highlighted in the picture below) to quickly finish the simulation:<br>
<img src="p4.jpg"><br><br>

7. The IPC is the final result shown in the window (where the arrow is pointing in the picture below):<br>
<img src="p5.jpg"><br><br>

For future runs, you should be able to skip over steps 3 and 4 above (if the settings were saved properly).