A Fast Full-System Simulation Environment for Memory System Evaluation

In this paper, we propose a fast full-system simulation environment that complements the shortcomings of each simulator to evaluate the memory system. We used a full-system simulator as a memory trace generator, except for the unnecessary details of it. Generated traces become inputs of trace-driven memory simulator. We also fine-tuned the memory simulator to get higher accuracy. The results show that the simulation can run at a speed of 1/7158x of the real system on average and the accuracy of memory system simulation is achieved by averaging 92.5% for bandwidth and 85.7% for latency.