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micro-experiments
Use when designing or auditing the evaluation of a MICRO paper — choosing the right instrument on the ladder from analytical model to cycle-level simulator to RTL to silicon, tuning baselines the PC will respect, selecting workload suites, running ablations and sensitivity sweeps, and reporting geomeans with full overhead accounting.
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# MICRO Experiments
MICRO's evaluation culture is instrument-centric: the community knows exactly what
each measurement tool can and cannot prove, and reviewers score the *match between
claim and instrument* before they look at the numbers.
## The instrument ladder
| Instrument | Proves | Cannot prove | Typical tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analytical / trace model | First-order potential, limit studies | Interaction effects, timing | custom, trace-driven models |
| Cycle-level simulation | Relative performance of mechanisms | Absolute wall-clock, physical cost | gem5, ChampSim, Sniper, Ramulator/DRAMsim3 |
| Power/area models on top of sim | Energy and area trends | Sign-off-quality numbers | McPAT, CACTI, Accelergy |
| RTL + synthesis | Timing closure, real area/power at a node | Full-system performance | Verilog/Chisel + synthesis flow |