This study suggests that the prevalence of SpLDs is at the higher side of previous estimations in India. The study is unique due to its large geographically representative design and identification of the problem using simplified screening approach and tools, which minimizes the number and time of specialist requirement and spares the expensive investigation. This approach and tools are suitable for field situations and resource scarce settings. Based on the authors' experience, they express the need for more prevalence studies, remedial education and policy interventions to manage SpLDs at main stream educational system to improve the school performance in Indian children.
This paper describes FAST, a novel simulation methodology that can produce simulators that (i) are orders of magnitude faster than comparable simulators, (ii) are cycleaccurate, (iii) model the entire system running unmodified applications and operating systems, (iv) provide visibility with minimal simulation performance impact and (v) are capable of running current instruction sets such as x86. It achieves its capabilities by partitioning simulators into a speculative functional model component that simulates the instruction set architecture and a timing model component that predicts performance. The speculative functional model enables the simulator to be parallelized, implementing the timing model in FPGA hardware for speed and the functional model using a modified full-system simulators. We currently achieve an average simulation speed of 1.2MIPS running x86 applications on x86 Linux and Windows XP and expect to achieve 10MIPS over time. Such simulators are useful to virtually all computer system simulator users ranging from architects, through RTL designers and verifiers to software developers. Sharing a common simulation/design infrastructure could foster better communication between these groups, potentially resulting in better system designs.40th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
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