Gpnocsim - A General Purpose Simulator for Network-On-Chip

Abstract

Network-on-chip (NoC) has gained considerable attention over the last few years as a paradigm for implementing communication among the system components embedded in a single chip. As such, there has been an increased need for defining and developing simulation software for carrying out simulation of NoC architectures. In this paper, we present gpNoCsim, a Java based general-purpose network simulator for NoC, which is built upon the object-oriented modular design of the NoC architecture components. Here we demonstrate the use of our proposed simulator by simulating several existing well-known architectures. We have also provided the guidelines on how to simulate future architectures. Finally, we have validated the outputs of gpNoCsim with the studies of existing NoC architectures.