The main objective of our tutorial is to foster SoC-level computer architecture research whose major barrier of entry now is a lack of basic tools and infrastructures. Although the nature of SoC research emphasizes on real system modeling and measurements, we currently lack systematic infrastructures that are easily accessible and widely adopted. The tutorial is a step to mitigate this gap in the community.

The tutorial is meant for researcher, students, and practitioners in the field who are interested in conducting architectural research at the scale of System-on-a-chip (SoC). Audience is not expected to have any prior knowledge of SoC and SoC-level modeling, but is expected to have preliminary knowledge of basic computer architecture.