NoC simulation modeling in DEVS-suite

  • Authors:
  • Hoda Ahmadinejad;Fatemeh Refan;Hessam S. Sarjoughian

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 Symposium on Theory of Modeling & Simulation: DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Study of Network-on-Chip (NoC) systems requires simulators capable of handling their unique characteristics. Toward this objective, a set of simulation models are developed based on NoC first principles and the DEVS modeling formalism. The models constitute the NoC-DEVS simulator, a domain-specific DEVS-Suite simulator. A representative prototypical NoC mesh-based system is modeled using processing elements, network interfaces, switches, and links. The same NoC example system is also modeled in Noxim simulator which is developed using SystemC. The NoC-DEVS simulator is evaluated against the Noxim simulator in terms of delay and throughput performance metrics. Some basic capabilities of these two simulators are briefly compared. A sketch of future research directions is also provided.