MEMOCODE 2011 Hardware/Software CoDesign Contest: NoC simulator

Author

Chiou, Derek

Author_Institution

Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

11-13 July 2011

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

76

Abstract

The objective of the 2011 MEMOCODE Hardware Software CoDesign Contest was to improve the performance of a configurable Network-on-Chip (NoC) simulator. A C++ reference simulator was provided, whose output was defined to be correct. The simulator takes two inputs: (i) a specification of the NoC to be simulated (the target) and (ii) a traffic pattern that specifies the traffic to be simulated on that NoC. The simulator was designed to support virtually any NoC topology. Results were judged firstly on correctness (that the number of cycles is accurately modeled) and secondly on simulation speed (the amount of time it takes to complete the entire simulation).

Keywords

C++ language; hardware-software codesign; network-on-chip; C++ reference simulator; MEMOCODE 2011 hardware/software codesign contest; Network-on-Chip; NoC simulator; NoC topology; speed simulation; traffic pattern; Buffer storage; Data models; Delay; Hardware; Routing; Software; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE), 2011 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0117-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0118-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMCOD.2011.5970512

Filename

5970512