1. MGSim - Simulation tools for multi-core processor architectures
- Author
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Lankamp, Mike, Poss, Raphael, Yang, Qiang, Fu, Jian, Uddin, Irfan, and Jesshope, Chris R.
- Subjects
Computer Science - Hardware Architecture ,Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing - Abstract
MGSim is an open source discrete event simulator for on-chip hardware components, developed at the University of Amsterdam. It is intended to be a research and teaching vehicle to study the fine-grained hardware/software interactions on many-core and hardware multithreaded processors. It includes support for core models with different instruction sets, a configurable multi-core interconnect, multiple configurable cache and memory models, a dedicated I/O subsystem, and comprehensive monitoring and interaction facilities. The default model configuration shipped with MGSim implements Microgrids, a many-core architecture with hardware concurrency management. MGSim is furthermore written mostly in C++ and uses object classes to represent chip components. It is optimized for architecture models that can be described as process networks., Comment: 33 pages, 22 figures, 4 listings, 2 tables
- Published
- 2013