SimWattch: Integrating Complete-System and User-Level Performance and Power Simulators

  • Authors:
  • Jianwei Chen;Michel Dubois;Per Stenström

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California;University of Southern California;Chalmers University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2007

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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.