MultiExplorer: ferramenta para exploração do espaço de projetos de sistemas multicore na era de dark-silicon

Abstract

This article presents the MultiExplorer tool, developed at the Laboratório de Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho da Faculdade de Computação (FACOM/UFMS), with the objective of supporting research and teaching activities in the area of functional simulation of multiprocessor on-chip (MPSoCs) projects, performance exploration, physical estimates, and dark-silicon estimates and mitigation. Although this article is being presented as part of a graduation thesis, it will be extended and published as a technical report of the tool to assist future researchers who use the system.