Simulation Tools

Gem5:

The gem5 simulator is a modular platform for computer-system architecture research, encompassing system-level architecture as well as processor microarchitecture.

The current public release of the gem5 simulator is available at http://repo.gem5.org. (See the Repository page for details.) Auxiliary files are available on on our Download page.

SimpleScalar:

The SimpleScalar tool set is a system software infrastructure used to build modeling applications for program performance analysis, detailed microarchitectural modeling, and hardware-software co-verification. Using the SimpleScalar tools, users can build modeling applications that simulate real programs running on a range of modern processors and systems. The tool set includes sample simulators ranging from a fast functional simulator to a detailed, dynamically scheduled processor model that supports non-blocking caches, speculative execution, and state-of-the-art branch prediction. The SimpleScalar tools are used widely for research and instruction, for example, in 2000 more than one third of all papers published in top computer architecture conferences used the SimpleScalar tools to evaluate their designs. In addition to simulators, the SimpleScalar tool set includes performance visualization tools, statistical analysis resources, and debug and verification infrastructure.

http://www.simplescalar.com/

CACTI:

An integrated cache access time, cycle time, area, leakage, and dynamic power model for uniform and non-uniform cache architectures

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~rajeev/cacti6/