Cache Performance Simulation and Analysis under Multi-parameters

Abstract

Cache is an important effect factor of total system performance of computer architecture. To provide references for the computer architecture designer, we put forward the relationship between the cache performance and cache parameters. Firstly, we described the main software simulation method, and analyzed various factors of effects on cache performance, and then carried out the simulation experiment of cache performance based on SimpleScalar tools set and SPEC2000 benchmark suite. We compared the effects on cache performance when cache size, cache block size and association are changed separately, and then we analyzed the experimental results in detail. The result is basically in keeping with the cache principle of architecture. At last we gave the reasonable cache parameters and conclusions.