System-Level Evaluation of Video Processing System Using SimpleScalar-Based Multi-core Processor Simulator

Abstract

Multi-core processor Simulation Platform is always a very important tool in modern multi-core processor design for the system-level design and evaluation. In this paper, a multi-core processor simulator is proposed by modifying Simple Scalar v3.0to simulate parallelized multi-core programs. Shared memory is used for the communication between different cores, which is the communication network among several different parts of the parallelized program separately. Two simulators are designed for different kinds of usage, one for functional simulation and the other for the simulation of the system with two-level cache. The mismatch of such simulator is less than 10% on average, and the presented simulator is used to evaluate the high-performance video processing systems.