访问Noxim 0.2版本

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访问Noxim 0.2版本 简介：本文记录了对Noxim 0.2版本的探索与体验，深入介绍了该软件的新功能、改进点及用户体验优化。 The Access Noxim is a co-simulation platform designed for 3D Network-on-Chip (NoC) systems, integrating the network model, power model, and thermal model. We combined Noxim with HotSpot and utilized the power model from Intel’s 80-core processor. Noxim functions as a cycle-accurate SystemC NoC simulator, while HotSpot offers an architecture-level thermal modeling solution. For compatibility with HotSpot, the NoC simulation needs to convert its architectural floorplan and power trace into chip-level physical floorplans and power traces. We incorporated basic 3D router models and DimDe routers in Noxim, enabling it to generate various 3D NoC architectures based on user-defined parameters of dimensions. A module was also added for automatically converting the architecture-level floorplan to a physical one. During network traffic simulation, a power trace is generated using the power model of the NoC. This power trace and the resulting physical floorplan are then used as inputs for thermal simulations in HotSpot. In our proposed simulator setup, both tile geometry and power models reference those found on Intel’s 80-core chip.