ARTEMIS: A Simulator Tool for Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip

Abstract

Complex homogeneous network-on-chip or heterogeneous network-on-chip increases the need of determining and developing simulation tools for designer to evaluate and comparison network performance. Towards this end, ARTEMIS tool, a matlab based simulator environment is developed. This simulator offers some collections of network configuration regarding to the topology graph, routing algorithm and switching strategy, including allocation scheme for a target application. Consequently, designers can choose the number and depth of virtual channels and the capacity of each link by applying an efficient allocation scheme, which is provided by this tool. Average latency and throughput are evaluation performance metrics that are measured with proposed simulator tool.

Keywords

• interconnection network
• homogeneous noc
• heterogeneous noc
• simulator
• performance