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Overview

As the demand for feature-rich mobile systems such as smartphones and tablets has outpaced other computing systems and is expected to continue at a faster rate, it is projected that SoCs with tens of cores and hundreds of IPs (or accelerator) will be designed to provide unprecedented level of features and functionality in future. Design of such mobile systems with required QoS and power budgets along with other design constraints will be a daunting task for computer architects since any ad hoc, piece-meal solution is unlikely to result in an optimal design. This requires early exploration of the complete design space to understand the system-level design trade-offs. We present GemDroid, a comprehensive simulation infrastructure to address these concerns.

GemDroid has been designed by integrating

• The Android open-source emulator
• the GEM5 core simulator

Highlights

• Hybrid approach – Traces from Android Emulator with many IP calls and input.
• IPs are modeled with various complexities – user defined.
• Enables plug and play of custom accelerators.
• Integrated under Gem5 framework.
• Support for multi-applications.
• Integrated power model for components
• Performance Metrics: IPC. FPS, Frame Drop Rates

People

Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan (Nachi)
Praveen Yedlapalli
Haibo Zhang
Prasanna Rengaswamy
Jihyun Ryoo

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Publications

ISCA - 2015

Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan, Haibo Zhang, Jihyun Ryoon (PennState), Niranjan Soundararajan (Intel), Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut Kandemir (Penn State), "VIP: Virtualizing IP Chains In Handheld Platforms", ISCA, 2015.

HPCA - 2015

Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan, Praveen Yedlapalli (Pennsylvania State University), Niranjan Soundararajan (Intel), Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut Kandemir (Pennsylvania State University), "Domain Knowledge Based Energy Management in Handhelds", HPCA, 2015.

MICRO - 2014

Praveen Yedlapalli*, Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan*, Niranjan Soundararajan, Mahmut Kandemir, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Chita R. Das, "Short-Circuiting Memory Traffic in Handheld Platforms", MICRO, 2014.

SIGMETRICS - 2014 [PDF] [BibTeX]

Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan, Praveen Yedlapalli, Niranjan Soundararajan, Mahmut Kandemir, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Chita R. Das, "GemDroid: A Framework To Evaluate Mobile Platforms", International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2014.

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