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MCsim: An Extensible DRAM Memory Controller Simulator


Abstract:

Numerous proposals for memory controller (MC) designs have been exposed to the research community. Interest has since been growing in the area of computer architecture an...Show More

Abstract:

Numerous proposals for memory controller (MC) designs have been exposed to the research community. Interest has since been growing in the area of computer architecture and real-time systems to improve the throughput of the system and/or guarantee timing requirements through novel scheduling algorithms. Consequently, comprehensive simulators are highly demanded since they provide an infrastructure for development of new ideas effectively without re-implementing the other parts of the hardware. Although there has been several proposals for off-chip memory device simulators, there is a shortage in their MC counterparts. In this letter, we propose MCsim, an extensible and cycle-accurate MC simulator. Designed as an integrable environment, MCsim is able to run as a trace-based simulator as well as provide an interface to connect with external CPU and memory device simulators.
Published in: IEEE Computer Architecture Letters ( Volume: 19, Issue: 2, 01 July-Dec. 2020)
Page(s): 105 - 109
Date of Publication: 09 July 2020

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