Chiplet Network Sim

Chiplet Network Simulator (CNSim) is a cycle-accurate packet-parallel simulator supporting efficient simulation for large-scale chiplet-based networks.

If you use CNSim in your research, we would appreciate the following citation in any publications to which it has contributed:

Yinxiao Feng, Yuchen Wei, Dong Xiang and Kaisheng Ma. Evaluating Chiplet-based Large-Scale Interconnection Networks via Cycle-Accurate Packet-Parallel Simulation. In 2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2024.

Features

• Hyper-threading
• Cycle-accurate
• Highly configurable and customizable in terms of topology, routing algorithms, and microarchitecture.

Dependencies

• boost library
• netrace (optional, modified from https://github.com/booksim/netrace)
  • bzip2

Usage:

• Windows
  • Visual Studio 2022
  • Open the directory as a cmake project
• Linux
  • Enter the directory, build, and run

Ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt install cmake ninja-build build-essential libboost-all-dev libbz2-dev
cd chiplet-network-sim
cmake --preset Linux-Release
cd builds/Linux-Release/
cmake --build .
./ChipletNetworkSim ../../input/dragonfly/global-chiplet-16.ini

Acknowledgement

• Yuchen Wei, Tsinghua University
• Dong Xiang and Kaisheng Ma, Tsinghua University
• BookSim and Netrace (https://github.com/booksim)