Abstract
This study presents a high-level simulator for Network-on-Chip (NoC), designed for many-core architectures, and integrated with the PlatEMO platform. The motivation for developing this tool arose from the need to evaluate the behavior of application mapping algorithms and the routing, both aspects are essential in the implementation and design of NoC architectures. This analysis underscored the importance of having effective NoC simulators as tools that allow for studying and comparing various network technologies while ensuring a controlled simulation environment. During this investigation and evaluation, some simulators, such as Noxim, NoCTweak, and NoCmap, among others, offered configurable parameters for application traffic, options to synthetically define topology and packet traffic patterns. Additionally, they include mapping options that optimize latency and energy consumption, routing algorithms, technological settings such as the CMOS process, and measurement options for evaluating performance metrics such as throughput and power usage. However, while these simulators meet detailed technical demands, they are mostly restricted to analyzing the low-level elements of the architecture, thus hindering quick and easy under- standing for non-specialists. This insight underscored the challenge in developing a tool that balances detailed analysis with a comprehensive learning perspective, considering the specific restrictions of each simulator analyzed. Experiments demonstrated the proposed simulator efficacy in handling algorithms like GA, PSO, and SA variant, and, surprisingly, revealed limitations of the XY algorithm in Mesh topologies, indicating the need for further investigation to confirm these findings. Future work will expand the simulator functionalities, incorporating a broader range of algorithms and performance metrics, to establish it as an indispensable tool for research and development in NoCs.
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