Title :
SimWattch: Integrating Complete-System and User-Level Performance and Power Simulators
Author :
Chen, Jianwei ; Dubois, Michel ; Per Stenstrom
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
Abstract :
Evaluating the impact of applications with significant operating-system interactions requires detailed microarchitectural simulation combined with system-level simulation. a cost-effective and practical approach is to combine two widely used simulators. SimWattch integrates Simics, a system-level tool, with Wattch, a user-level tool, to facilitate analysis of a wider design space for computer architects and system developers.
Keywords :
computer architecture; operating systems (computers); power aware computing; software tools; SimWattch; Simics; complete-system; computer architects; microarchitectural simulation; operating-system interactions; power simulators; system developers; system-level simulation; system-level tool; user-level performance; Analytical models; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer applications; Computer simulation; Data engineering; Microarchitecture; Microprocessors; Operating systems; Power engineering computing; low-power design; modeling of computer architecture; power management; simulation;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
