SimEvents based high level early design space exploration and modeling of a 3D Network on Chip

The transition from 2D to 3D Network on Chips is have recently gained momentum with research effort targeted to solving the different implementation issues. The planification and design space exploration for 3D NoCs, intuitively harder than for 2D NoCs, calls for more flexible and powerful simulation tools. The Matlab ecosystem is appropriate for the implementation of such simulation systems. In this paper, we present the simulation of a model of a mesh 4 × 4 × 3 3D NoC using SimEvents, a Discrete Event Simulation accessible through Mathworks Simulink. The performance of the whole NoC is measured for the whole network, and for the side, corner, and middle nodes.