NoCs Simulation Framework for OMNeT++
Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Eitan Zahavi, Israel Cidon, Avinoam Kolodny · 2011
As chip density keeps doubling every process generation, the use of Network-on-Chip becomes the prevalent architecture of SoC, MPSoC and large scale CMP designs. To that end, diverse NoC solutions are developed by the industry and the research community in order to meet heterogeneous on-chip communication requirements. Consequently, there is a growing need to rely on a simulation tools in order to explore, evaluate and optimize these new NoC architectures and topologies. The simulation platform is based on OMNeT++. It provides an open-source, modular, scalable, extendible and fully parameterizable framework for modeling NoC. In this demo we describe the structure of this framework.