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 Release
cd builds/Release/
cmake --build .
./ChipletNetworkSim ../../input/multiple_chip_mesh_4x4.ini

Acknowledgement