Prototyping Accelerators using Intel® Integrated Simulation Infrastructure with Modeling (Intel SIM)

Presented at DVCon Europe 2021
Session T1.1
Intel® Integrated Simulation Infrastructure with Modeling (Intel® ISIM) is a versatile framework that supports functional, performance, power, and thermal simulations in a single environment. It is based on the well-known Intel Simics® simulation framework, and available as a free public download from software.intel....
In this tutorial, we go through an example of how to use Intel ISIM to build a virtual platform (VP) model of an accelerator attached to a general-purpose Intel Architecture computer, and try some accelerator architecture variants in the VP. We will use the standard Simics Quick-Start Platform (QSP) virtual platform, and model and attach a virtual PCIe card that offloads computation from the main processors. The tutorial explains the process to implement an accelerator model in Intel ISIM. The model encompasses the hardware-software interface of the accelerator, as well as different internal accelerator architectures. The software stack is provided, to keep the scope limited.
The tutorial will present the basics of model building in Intel ISIM, how to attach PCIe devices to a virtual platform, and how to model parallelism and estimated computation costs. The materials presented are available in the public Intel ISIM release, and you can download, install, and try it yourself.
Presenter:
Jakob Engblom, Intel
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