A survey of computer architecture simulation techniques and tools

A Akram, L Sawalha - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer architecture simulators play an important role in advancing computer architecture
research. With wider research directions and the increased number of simulators that have …

The gem5 simulator

N Binkert, B Beckmann, G Black, SK Reinhardt… - ACM SIGARCH …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The gem5 simulation infrastructure is the merger of the best aspects of the M5 [4] and GEMS
[9] simulators. M5 provides a highly configurable simulation framework, multiple ISAs, and …

A detailed and flexible cycle-accurate network-on-chip simulator

N Jiang, DU Becker, G Michelogiannakis… - … analysis of systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are becoming integral parts of modern microprocessors as the
number of cores and modules integrated on a single chip continues to increase. Research …

The gem5 simulator: Version 20.0+

J Lowe-Power, AM Ahmad, A Akram, M Alian… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The open-source and community-supported gem5 simulator is one of the most popular tools
for computer architecture research. This simulation infrastructure allows researchers to …

DSENT-a tool connecting emerging photonics with electronics for opto-electronic networks-on-chip modeling

C Sun, CHO Chen, G Kurian, L Wei… - 2012 IEEE/ACM …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rise of many-core chips that require substantial bandwidth from the network on chip
(NoC), integrated photonic links have been investigated as a promising alternative to …

Syncron: Efficient synchronization support for near-data-processing architectures

C Giannoula, N Vijaykumar… - … Symposium on High …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Near-Data-Processing (NDP) architectures present a promising way to alleviate data
movement costs and can provide significant performance and energy benefits to parallel …

Orion 2.0: A power-area simulator for interconnection networks

AB Kahng, B Li, LS Peh… - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As industry moves towards multicore chips, networks-on-chip (NoCs) are emerging as the
scalable fabric for interconnecting the cores. With power now the first-order design …

DOS: A scalable optical switch for datacenters

X Ye, Y Yin, SJB Yoo, P Mejia, R Proietti… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper discusses the architecture and performance studies of Datacenter Optical Switch
(DOS) designed for scalable and high-throughput interconnections within a data center …

Atom: Atomic durability in non-volatile memory through hardware logging

A Joshi, V Nagarajan, S Viglas… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-volatile memory (NVM) is emerging as a fast byte-addressable alternative for storing
persistent data. Ensuring atomic durability in NVM requires logging. Existing techniques …

Cache coherence for GPU architectures

I Singh, A Shriraman, WWL Fung… - 2013 IEEE 19th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While scalable coherence has been extensively studied in the context of general purpose
chip multiprocessors (CMPs), GPU architectures present a new set of challenges …