A Cache dynamic power analysis tool in full-system Simics

A dynamic power analysis tool PowerGC based on Cache behavior for cycle-level full-system simics was proposed. The basic idea is dissembling the Cache behavior into five atomic operations. These operations independently drive the sub-components of data array and tag array, which can be estimated by Cacti 6.5 and support different Cache logic structures and Cache management policies. According to the evaluation results based on Simics, PowerGC works well to estimate the Cache dynamical power for different Cache structures and different management policies.