SimTile:片状多核处理器的高效模拟器(英文)

传统的基于共享总线的多核芯片随着核心数增加产生了瓶颈问题。新型TiledCMP(chip multiprocessor)的结构设计中,片上核心互联网络对提高扩展能力和执行效率起到了重要作用。为了实现低延迟、高带宽的核心通信,高速点对点网络方式的片上多核互联结构模拟成为研究的热点。抽象片上Tiled方式16核功能单元结构,设计实现了SimTile模拟器,可提供配置灵活、功能单元齐全的片上多核处理器设计,支持高效率的全局共享缓存、高速片上路由结构。模拟器采用模块化的组件配置方式,片上核心数量与互联网络结构、数据一致性协议、全局寄存器通信与cache共享模式等,均可通过精简的参数调整。实验表明模拟器执行效率较高,为片上多核研究提供了灵活、高效并具备可扩展性的新平台。

SimTile: An Efficient Simulator of Tiled Chip Multi-processor

Traditional bus sharing multi-processor chips meet bottleneck trouble with the number of processor cores increasing. In the structure design of novel Tiled CMP(chip multi-processor), onchip interconnection shows great impact on platform scalability and performance. Implementation of low latency and high bandwidth onchip routing structure becomes current hotspot. Execute-driven SimTile is implemented by a structure of Tiled 16-core CMP de-sign, which can offer flexible configuration and full-functional CMP building models. The simulator supports effi-cient global shared cache hierarchy and high performance onchip routing structure. Modules configuration is adopted to setup the platform parameters, such as processor numbers, interconnection network topology, cache co-herence protocols, global registers communication and the storage hierarchy etc. The simulator has been evaluated to have fine efficiency in Tiled CMP simulation as to provide a novel flexible and well scalable platform.