CacheSimulator
A cache simulator in Python for CS 530
Documentation on cache configuration and trace files are located in their respective folders
Requirements
CacheSimulator needs two extra Python modules: pyyaml and terminaltables
These can both be installed using pip:
sudo pip install pyyaml/terminaltables
Running
To run a quick test simulation, enter the src folder and run this command:
./cache_simulator.py -pdc ../configs/config_simple_multilevel -t ../traces/trace2.txt
For more details, run:
./cache_simulator.py --help
Goals
This simulator will create a memory heirarchy from a YAML configuration file and calculate the AMAT for a given tracefile.
The memory heirarchy is configurable with the following features:
- Word size, block size
- Address size does not need to be defined
- L1 cache with user-defined parameters
- Associativity
- Hit time
- Write time
- Optional L2 and L3 caches
- Simulate write back and write through
- Pretty print the cache layouts