RedScarf

A GUI-oriented Simulation Environment for the Performane Evaluation of Networks-on-Chip

Getting Started

This repo contains the front-end of the environment. The back-end is the simulator available on SNoCS

For contribute to RedScarf project, start with the follow steps:

1. Clone the project
2. Change to "develop" branch (usually most updated) 2.1. To add new features, create new branch from "develop"
3. Open the RedScarf.pro file in Qt Creator
4. Compile and run!
5. Update, fix, add and collaborate!

If the GUI open, you will need the back-end deployed to run the experiments!

Prerequisites

• Compiler with support to C++11 (GCC, VisualStudio, Clang,...)
• Qt SDK qt.io

About

First release

Version 1.0.0
Date: 12/12/2014
Author: Eduardo Alves da Silva

Second release

Version: 2.0.0
Date: 15/07/2015
By: Eduardo Alves da Silva

Last major update

Version: 2.5.0
Date: 29/10/2019
By: Eduardo Alves da Silva

Credits and Contacts

RedScarf was developed and is maintened by LEDS - Laboratory of Embedded and Distributed Systems at Univali - University of Vale do Itajaí - Brazil. For more information, please contact the professors:

• Cesar Albenes Zeferino, PhD LEDS coordinator or
• Eduardo Alves da Silva, MSc Head of RedScarf

Research - Related Work

Please, cite:

E. Alves da Silva, M.E. Kreutz, and C.A. Zeferino. Experimental Data from the Simulation of On-Chip Communication Architectures using RedScarf Simulation Environment, Data in Brief, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104725.

SILVA, Eduardo. A, KREUTZ, Marcio E., ZEFERINO, Cesar A. RedScarf Reference Dataset. Mendeley Data, v. 1, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/wy9y7npwyv.1.

SILVA, Eduardo. A, KREUTZ, Marcio E., ZEFERINO, Cesar A. RedScarf: an open-source multi-platform simulation environment for performance evaluation of Networks-on-Chip. Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 99, 2019, 101633, ISSN 1383-7621, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2019.101633. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383762119300815)

SILVA, E.A., MENEGASSO, D., VARGAS, S., ZEFERINO, C.A. RedScarf: a user-friendly multi-platform Network-on-Chip simulator. In VII Brazilian Symposium on Computing Systems Engineering (SBESC) (2017), 2017, pp. 71-78. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8116562)

SILVA, E. A., ZEFERINO, C. A. Uma Análise sobre Ferramentas de Redes-em-Chip e seus Recursos para Uso no Ensino. International Journal of Computer Architecture Education (IJCAE), Volume 4, 2015, n. 1, pp. 29-32, ISSN: 2316-9915.(http://www2.sbc.org.br/ceacpad/ijcae/v4_n1_dec_2015/IJCAE_v4_n1_dez_2015_paper_8_vf.pdf)

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License - see LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

Thanks for everyone envolved in RedScarf project.

• Daniel Menegasso - new version of traffic setup dialog dev
• Sergio Vargas Junior - documentation and new plotter dev
• Jaison Valmor Bruch and Thiago Felski Pereira - BrownPepper developers - BrownPepper was the inspiration work for the RedScarf.