Implications of Full-System Modeling for Superconducting Architectures

As Moore’s Law slows, superconducting electronics offer ultra-low-power, high-speed computation potential. This paper presents the first full-system superconducting architecture modeling in gem5, evaluating superconducting cores, caches, and interconnects under realistic workloads. We extend gem5 with cryogenic semiconductor (4 GHz) and superconducting (100 GHz) RISC-V cores and multi-level caches, evaluating RISC-V benchmarks and SPEC CPU2006 applications. We also integrate SRNoC, a...