A hardware/software cosimulator for Network-on-Chip

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is considered as a promising interconnection scheme for many-core System-on-a-Chip (SoC) since it offers better scalability than traditional bus-based interconnection. In this paper, we proposed a fast simulator of NoC architectures using QEMU and Noxim. QEMU is an open-source CPU emulator, and Noxim is an open-source SystemC base NoC simulator for on-chip interconnection network. Experimental results show that proposed simulator successfully simulates a 108 core NoC in a practical time.