A cache simulator in Python for CS 530

Documentation on cache configuration and trace files are located in their respective folders

CacheSimulator needs two extra Python modules: pyyaml and terminaltables

These can both be installed using pip:

sudo pip install pyyaml/terminaltables

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

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