Updated power estimation module

bin/Makefile

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 TARGET_ARCH = linux
+# TARGET_ARCH = macosx64
+
 CC     = g++
 OPT    = -O3
 DEBUG  = -g

bin/Makefile.defs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # NOTE FOR NOXIM USERS: before running "make" you just have to modify
 # the following variable to point to your SystemC installation path
 #
-SYSTEMC = /opt/systemc-2.2.0
+SYSTEMC = /Library/SystemC/systemc-2.3.0
 #
 # That's all for you!!!
 

bin/default_router.pwr

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../pwr/default_router.pwr

doc/AUTHORS.txt

@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ Authors
 Noxim is developed at the University of Catania (Italy) by the following team of Computer Architecture:
 
 - Maurizio Palesi, PhD
-  Email: mpalesi@diit.unict.it
-  Home: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/mpalesi/
+  Email: maurizio.palesi@unikore.it
+  Home: http://www.unikore.it/mpalesi/
 
 - Davide Patti, PhD
-  Email: dpatti@diit.unict.it
+  Email: dpatti@dieei.unict.it
   Home: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/dpatti/
 
-- Fabrizio Fazzino
+- Fabrizio Fazzino, PhD
   Email: fabrizio@fazzino.it
   Home: http://www.fazzino.it/
 

doc/INSTALL.txt

@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ Prerequisite: SystemC installation
 
     sudo apt-get install build-essential
 
-- Download SystemC (currently at version 2.2.0) from http://www.systemc.org/downloads/standards/
-  (a free registration is required).
+- Download SystemC (currently at version 2.3.0) from 
+  http://www.accellera.org/downloads/standards/systemc (a free registration is required).
 - Unpack it; please note that some versions have a wrong file extension. For instance you may
   have to use the following commands to untar it:
 
-    mv systemc-2.2.0.tgz systemc-2.2.0.tar
-    tar xvf systemc-2.2.0.tar
+    mv systemc-2.3.0.tgz systemc-2.3.0.tar
+    tar xvf systemc-2.3.0.tar
 
 - Enter the newly created directory and refer to the file INSTALL which details all the steps
   required for building. Basically they are:

doc/MANUAL.txt

@@ -24,57 +24,62 @@ The output provided by this command should look like this:
 
 #################################################################
 
-             SystemC 2.2.0 --- Mar 11 2010 11:07:33
-        Copyright (c) 1996-2006 by all Contributors
-                    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+             SystemC 2.3.0-ASI --- Oct 16 2013 11:40:12
+        Copyright (c) 1996-2012 by all Contributors,
+        ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
 
 		Noxim - the NoC Simulator
-                (C) University of Catania
+		(C) University of Catania
 
 Usage: ./noxim [options]
 where [options] is one or more of the following ones:
-        -help           Show this help and exit
-        -verbose N      Verbosity level (1=low, 2=medium, 3=high, default off)
-        -trace FILENAME Trace signals to a VCD file named 'FILENAME.vcd' (default off)
-        -dimx N	        Set the mesh X dimension to the specified integer value (default 4)
-        -dimy N	        Set the mesh Y dimension to the specified integer value (default 4)
-        -buffer N	Set the buffer depth of each channel of the router to the specified integer value [flits] (default 4)
-        -size Nmin Nmax Set the minimum and maximum packet size to the specified integer values [flits] (default min=2, max=10)
-        -routing TYPE   Set the routing algorithm to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following (default 0):
-      	        xy              XY routing algorithm
-	        westfirst      	West-First routing algorithm
-	        northlast      	North-Last routing algorithm
-	        negativefirst	Negative-First routing algorithm
-	        oddeven 	Odd-Even routing algorithm
- 	        dyad T   	DyAD routing algorithm with threshold T
-	        fullyadaptive	Fully-Adaptive routing algorithm
-	        table FILENAME	Routing Table Based routing algorithm with table in the specified file
-       -sel TYPE	Set the selection strategy to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following (default 0):
-	        random		Random selection strategy
-   	        bufferlevel	Buffer-Level Based selection strategy
-	        nop	  	Neighbors-on-Path selection strategy
-       -pir R TYPE		Set the packet injection rate to the specified real value [0..1] (default 0.01) and the time distribution of traffic to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following:
-	        poisson	        Memory-less Poisson distribution (default)
-	        burst R	  	Burst distribution with given real burstness
-	        pareto on off r	Self-similar Pareto distribution with given real parameters (alfa-on alfa-off r)
-	        custom R     	Custom distribution with given real probability of retransmission
-       -traffic TYPE       	Set the spatial distribution of traffic to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following (default 0'):
-	        random     	Random traffic distribution
-	        transpose1	Transpose matrix 1 traffic distribution
-	        transpose2	Transpose matrix 2 traffic distribution
-	        bitreversal	Bit-reversal traffic distribution
-	        butterfly	Butterfly traffic distribution
-  	        shuffle   	Shuffle traffic distribution
-	        table FILENAME 	Traffic Table Based traffic distribution with table in the specified file
-       -hs ID P         Add node ID to hotspot nodes, with percentage P (0..1) (Only for 'random' traffic)
-       -warmup N        Start to collect statistics after N cycles (default 1000)
-       -seed N 	        Set the seed of the random generator (default time())
-       -detailed        Show detailed statistics
-       -volume N        Stop the simulation when either the maximum number of cycles has been reached or N flits have been delivered
-       -sim N  	        Run for the specified simulation time [cycles] (default 10000)
-
-If you find this program useful please don't forget to mention in your paper Maurizio Palesi <mpalesi@diit.unict.it>
-If you find this program useless please feel free to complain with Davide Patti <dpatti@diit.unict.it>
+	-help		Show this help and exit
+	-verbose N	Verbosity level (1=low, 2=medium, 3=high, default off)
+	-trace FILENAME	Trace signals to a VCD file named 'FILENAME.vcd' (default off)
+	-dimx N		Set the mesh X dimension to the specified integer value (default 4)
+	-dimy N		Set the mesh Y dimension to the specified integer value (default 4)
+	-buffer N	Set the buffer depth of each channel of the router to the specified integer value [flits] (default 4)
+	-size Nmin Nmax	Set the minimum and maximum packet size to the specified integer values [flits] (default min=2, max=10)
+	-routing TYPE	Set the routing algorithm to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following (default 0):
+		xy		XY routing algorithm
+		westfirst	West-First routing algorithm
+		northlast	North-Last routing algorithm
+		negativefirst	Negative-First routing algorithm
+		oddeven		Odd-Even routing algorithm
+		dyad T		DyAD routing algorithm with threshold T
+		fullyadaptive	Fully-Adaptive routing algorithm
+		table FILENAME	Routing Table Based routing algorithm with table in the specified file
+	-sel TYPE	Set the selection strategy to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following (default 0):
+		random		Random selection strategy
+		bufferlevel	Buffer-Level Based selection strategy
+		nop		Neighbors-on-Path selection strategy
+	-pir R TYPE		Set the packet injection rate to the specified real value [0..1] (default 0.01) and the time distribution of traffic to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following:
+		poisson		Memory-less Poisson distribution (default)
+		burst R		Burst distribution with given real burstness
+		pareto on off r	Self-similar Pareto distribution with given real parameters (alfa-on alfa-off r)
+		custom R	Custom distribution with given real probability of retransmission
+	-traffic TYPE	Set the spatial distribution of traffic to TYPE where TYPE is one of the following (default 0'):
+		random		Random traffic distribution
+		transpose1	Transpose matrix 1 traffic distribution
+		transpose2	Transpose matrix 2 traffic distribution
+		bitreversal	Bit-reversal traffic distribution
+		butterfly	Butterfly traffic distribution
+		shuffle		Shuffle traffic distribution
+		table FILENAME	Traffic Table Based traffic distribution with table in the specified file
+	-hs ID P	Add node ID to hotspot nodes, with percentage P (0..1) (Only for 'random' traffic)
+	-pwr FILENAME	Router and link power data (default default_router.pwr)
+	-lpls		Enable low power link strategy (default 0)
+	-qos PERCENTAGE	Percentage of communication that have to be routed on regular links (default 1)
+	-warmup N	Start to collect statistics after N cycles (default 1000)
+	-seed N		Set the seed of the random generator (default time())
+	-detailed	Show detailed statistics
+	-show_buf_stats	Show buffers statistics (default 0)
+	-volume N	Stop the simulation when either the maximum number of cycles has been reached or N flits have been delivered
+	-sim N		Run for the specified simulation time [cycles] (default 10000)
+
+If you find this program useful please don't forget to mention in your paper Maurizio Palesi <maurizio.palesi@unikore.it>
+If you find this program useless please feel free to complain with Davide Patti <dpatti@dieei.unict.it>
 And if you want to send money please feel free to PayPal to Fabrizio Fazzino <fabrizio@fazzino.it>
 
 #################################################################
@@ -136,6 +141,14 @@ router. This size is expressed in flits. Please read the above instructions for
 more details.
 
 
+-size Nmin Nmax	
+---------------
+
+The option -size is uded to define the minimum and maximum packet size
+in flits. For each generated packet, the packet size is randomly
+generated between Nmin and Nmax. For fixed packet size just use Nmin=Nmax
+
+
 -routing TYPE
 -------------
 
@@ -158,7 +171,7 @@ with the greater number of free slots in the destination FIFO buffer.
 -----------
 
 With the -pir option you can set the Packet Injection Rate (PIR) to the specified
-real value.
+real value. TYPE defines the type of distribution.
 
 
 -traffic TYPE
@@ -178,6 +191,24 @@ The -hs option is used to specify the Hot-Spot nodes. Along with the node
 identificator you must specify the hot spot percentage.
 
 
+-pwr FILENAME
+-------------
+
+The -pwr option is used to define the power file used for estimating
+energy figures. The folder pwr/ contains a sample power file.
+
+
+-lpls, -qos PERCENTAGE
+----------------------
+
+The -lpls and -qos options allows to simulate the low-voltage link
+strategy proposed in [1]. See [1] for further details.
+
+[1] A. Mineo, M. Palesi, G. Ascia, V. Catania. Runtime Online Links
+Voltage Scaling for Low Energy Networks on Chip. EUROMICRO DSD/SEAA
+2013, Santander, Spain, September 4-6, 2013.
+
+
 -warmup N
 ---------
 

other/noxim_explorer.cpp

@@ -119,11 +119,11 @@ string TrimLeftAndRight(const string& s)
 
 bool ExtractParameter(const string& s, string& parameter)
 {
-  uint i = s.find("[");
+  size_t i = s.find("[");
 
   if (i != string::npos)
     {
-      uint j = s.rfind("]");
+      size_t j = s.rfind("]");
 
       if (j != string::npos)
 	{
@@ -533,8 +533,7 @@ bool ReadResults(const string& fname,
       string line;
       getline(fin, line);
 
-      uint pos;
-
+      size_t pos;      
       pos = line.find(RPACKETS_LABEL);
       if (pos != string::npos) 
 	{

other/sim.cfg

@@ -3,31 +3,32 @@
 [/topology]
 
 [routing]
-   oddeven
+   xy
 [/routing]
 
-[sel]
-   random
-   bufferlevel
-   nop
-[/sel]
-
 [pir]
    0.010 0.015 0.001 poisson
 [/pir]
 
+[qos]
+   0.5
+   0.8
+[/qos]
+
 [default]
    -sim 10000
    -warmup 2000
    -size 8 8
    -buffer 4
+   -pwr ../pwr/t45_f1_b4_f32_dlv08.pwr
+   -lpls
 [/default]
 
 [aggregation]
    pir
 [/aggregation]
 
 [explorer]
-   simulator ../noxim
-   repetitions 20
+   simulator ../bin/noxim
+   repetitions 10
 [/explorer]

pwr/default_router.pwr

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# baseline router
+# energy data obtained from Orion 2.0
+# ./orion_router_power -p -d 2 -l 0.5 my_router
+# PARM_TECH_POINT       45
+# PARM_Vdd              1.0
+# PARM_Freq             1.0e9
+# PARM_v_channel	1
+# PARM_in_buf_set	4
+# PARM_flit_width	32
+
+PWR_BUFFERING   9.38275e-12
+PWR_ROUTING     0.0
+PWR_SELECTION   0.0
+PWR_ARBITRATION 3.71035e-13
+PWR_CROSSBAR    1.0258e-11
+PWR_LINK        11.0e-12
+PWR_LINK_LV     11.0e-12
+PWR_LEAKAGE     1.75635e-12
+PWR_END2END     0.0