Simulators

1. NoC simulators
Here is a list of open-source (code available) NoC simulators. It is not intended to be complete. If you have or know of other NoC simulators, which you would like to be included in this list let us know.

Simulator	Lang.	Characteristics
Booksim , 2002-2010, Stanford	C++	Topo: 2D mesh, torus, trees, etc.; Traffic: uniform, transpose, etc.;
WormSim, 2005, CMU	C++	Topo: 2D mesh, torus; Traffic: built-in; Power: Ebit, Orion 1; No multiple VCs support;
NOC Simulator, 2007, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	C++	Topo: 2D mesh, torus, folded-torus;
VNOC 2.0, 2009-2014, Marquette University	C++	Topo: 2D mesh, torus; Traffic: uniform, transpose, hotspot, selfsimilar; Power: Orion 2; GUI: simple; Freq. throttle and freq. boost based DVFS
Matrics, 2011, Technion	C++	Routers: synchronous, asynchronous; Built on top of OMNet++
Sicosys, 2008, University of Cantabria, Spain	C++
TOPAZ, 2012, University of Cantabria, Spain	C++	derived from Sicosys; 50K lines of code; parallel; gem5 integration
Garnet – part of GEMS (discontinued) and gem5, 2008, Princeton	C++
OcinTsim – DVFS Aware Simulator, 2009, TAMU	C++	Includes modified Orion 2.0
NOXIM, 2005-2010, University of Catania	SystemC	Topo: 2D mesh; Traffic: random, transpose, etc.;
Nostrum, 2002-2006, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology	SystemC
NIRGAM, 2007, University of Southampton	SystemC	Topo: 2D mesh, torus; Routing: XY, adaptive OE, source routing;
OCCM, 2005, ST Microelectronics, AST Grenoble Lab	SystemC
NOCSIM, 2002-2006, TAMU	SystemC
NocTweak, 2013, UC Davis	SystemC	Supported benchmarks: synthetic, real/embedded applications, multithread traces;
ATLAS, 2011, PUCRS, Brazil	Java
gpNOCsim, 2006, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)	Java
Xmulator, 2009-present, Sharif University of Technology	C#	Download also from here but only older versions
NOCulator, 2014-present, Carnegie Mellon University	C#	Networks (mesh, torus, ring, hierarchical ring, flattened butterfly) and routers (buffered, bufferless, Adaptive Flow Control, minBD, HiRD)

In addition, here is a list of NoC simulators or NoC related tools whose source code is not publicly available. Only executables are offered for grabs. 🙂

Simulator	Lang.	Characteristics
COSI, 2008, UC Berkeley	SystemC

2. Optical/Photonic NoC simulators

Simulator	Lang.	Characteristics
PhoenixSim, 2011, Columbia	C++	Topo: 2D mesh, torus, etc.; Built on top of OMNet++

3. Wireless NoC simulators

4. 3D NoC simulators

Simulator	Lang.	Characteristics
Access Noxim, 2013, National Taiwan University	C++	Built on top of Noxim; integrates HotSpot

5. NoC + Multicore simulators

Simulator	Lang.	Characteristics
GEM5, 2011, Academic and industrial institutions, including AMD, ARM, HP, MIPS, Princeton, MIT, and the Universities of Michigan, Texas, and Wisconsin	C++	merger of M5 and GEMS
Graphite Multicore Simulator, 2011, MIT	C++	Topo: 2D mesh
Sniper, 2015, Universiteit Gent.	C++	Sniper is a next generation parallel, high-speed and accurate x86 simulator. Built on top of Graphite of MIT.
Hornet cycle-level multicore simulator, 2011, MIT	C++	multithreaded
FusionSim simulator, 2012, University of Toronto	C++	CPU, GPU, NoC (derivative of Booksim)
ESESC simulator, 2013, UCSC	C++	heterogeneous multicores

6. NoC mapping algorithms

Mapping tool	Lang.	Characteristics
NoCMap, 2004, CMU	C++	branch-and-bound; energy, performance aware
ReliableNoC, 2011, University at Buffalo	C++	built on top of NoCMap; energy, reliability aware
MapoNoC, 2012, Università della Svizzera Italiana	C++	KPN application model; reliability aware

7. Other NoC CAD tools

Tool	Characteristics
Atlas	An environment to automate the design flow for NoCs of the GAPH Group.
Hemps	A fully functional MPSoC architecture with multiple MIPS-I processors.
Netrace	A set of tools and traces designed to enhance the performance and fidelity of traditional trace-based network-on-chip simulation. UTexas.
PreMaDona	Generate simulation models from XML specifications of NoC-based MPSoC systems. Eindhoven University of Technology.

8. Benchmarks
MCSL: multi-constraint system-level, Hong Kong
Trace monitor and traffic generator, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

9. Other related and useful tools

Tool	Characteristics
McPAT	McPAT (Multicore Power, Area, and Timing) is an integrated power, area, and timing modeling framework for multithreaded, multicore, and manycore architectures.
Orion	Power-performance simulator for on-chip interconnection networks
Wattch	CPU power consumption
HotSpot	High-performance thermal modeling
NS-2	The network simulator
NS-3	The new network simulator
OMNet++	Simulation library and framework
NETSIM on top of YACSIM Download also from here	Rice Parallel Processing Testbed: a family of discrete-event simulators; C programming; 1993

10. Additional resources
SimulationTools.bib
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