TOWARDS FAST AND FLEXIBLE SIMULATION OF NETWORK PROCESSORS
Network processor (NP) has emerged as a successful platform for the implementation of network applications. Since most of them have adopted an architecture that is different from general purpose processors, this has raised the demand of a fast and flexible simulator for network processors. In this paper, we present a simulator called Simplified Network Processor Simulator (Sim2NP). It models the typical features of NPs, including multiple processing cores, integrated memory controller and networking interface. The simulator is designed in a manner that applications can be easily implemented in C programming language with almost no modification to commercially available compilers. Moreover, new features can also be easily added into this simulator. Experiments have shown that our simulator runs at comparable speed with SimpleScalar. Applications can be easily implemented on our simulator and it can provide abundant information for the study of NPs.
Network processor simulation performance analysis
Z. Liu D. Bermingham X. Wang
School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University Collins Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Dublin School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University Collins Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Dubli
国际会议
北京
英文
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2008-09-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）