Welcome to FireSim’s documentation!

New to FireSim? Jump to the FireSim Basics page for more info.

Getting Started:

• 1. FireSim Basics
  • 1.1. Two common use cases:
    • 1.1.1. Single-Node Simulation, in Parallel
    • 1.1.2. Datacenter/Cluster Simulation
  • 1.2. Other Use Cases
  • 1.3. Background/Terminology
  • 1.4. Using FireSim/The FireSim Workflow
• 2. Initial Setup/Installation
  • 2.1. First-time AWS User Setup
    • 2.1.1. Creating an AWS Account
    • 2.1.2. AWS Credit at Berkeley
    • 2.1.3. Requesting Limit Increases
  • 2.2. Configuring Required Infrastructure in Your AWS Account
    • 2.2.1. Select a region
    • 2.2.2. Key Setup
    • 2.2.3. Check your EC2 Instance Limits
    • 2.2.4. Start a t2.nano instance to run the remaining configuration commands
    • 2.2.5. Run scripts from the t2.nano
    • 2.2.6. Terminate the t2.nano
    • 2.2.7. Subscribe to the AWS FPGA Developer AMI
  • 2.3. Setting up your Manager Instance
    • 2.3.1. Launching a “Manager Instance”
    • 2.3.2. Setting up the FireSim Repo
    • 2.3.3. Completing Setup Using the Manager
• 3. Running FireSim Simulations
  • 3.1. Running a Single Node Simulation
    • 3.1.1. Building target software
    • 3.1.2. Setting up the manager configuration
    • 3.1.3. Launching a Simulation!
  • 3.2. Running a Cluster Simulation
    • 3.2.1. Returning to a clean configuration
    • 3.2.2. Building target software
    • 3.2.3. Setting up the manager configuration
    • 3.2.4. Launching a Simulation!
• 4. Building Your Own Hardware Designs (FireSim FPGA Images)
  • 4.1. Amazon S3 Setup
  • 4.2. Build Recipes
  • 4.3. Running a Build

Advanced Docs:

• Manager Usage (the firesim command)
  • 1. Overview
    • 1.1. “Inputs” to the Manager
    • 1.2. Logging
  • 2. Manager Command Line Arguments
    • 2.1. --runtimeconfigfile FILENAME
    • 2.2. --buildconfigfile FILENAME
    • 2.3. --buildrecipesconfigfile FILENAME
    • 2.4. --hwdbconfigfile FILENAME
    • 2.5. --overrideconfigdata SECTION PARAMETER VALUE
    • 2.6. TASK
  • 3. Manager Tasks
    • 3.1. firesim managerinit
    • 3.2. firesim buildafi
    • 3.3. firesim shareagfi
    • 3.4. firesim launchrunfarm
    • 3.5. firesim terminaterunfarm
    • 3.6. firesim infrasetup
    • 3.7. firesim boot
    • 3.8. firesim kill
    • 3.9. firesim runworkload
    • 3.10. firesim runcheck
  • 4. Manager Configuration Files
    • 4.1. config_runtime.ini
    • 4.2. config_build.ini
    • 4.3. config_build_recipes.ini
    • 4.4. config_hwdb.ini
  • 5. Manager Network Topology Definitions (user_topology.py)
    • 5.1. user_topology.py contents:
  • 6. AGFI Metadata/Tagging
• Workloads
  • Defining Custom Workloads
    • Uniform Workload JSON
    • Non-uniform Workload JSON (explicit job per simulated node)
  • SPEC 2017
    • Intspeed
    • Intrate
  • Running Fedora on FireSim
    • Building a FireSim-compatible Fedora Image
    • Testing or customizing the target software using QEMU
    • Booting Fedora on FireSim
  • ISCA 2018 Experiments
    • Prerequisites
    • Building Benchmark Binaries/Rootfses
    • Figure 5: Ping Latency vs. Configured Link Latency
    • Figure 6: Network Bandwidth Saturation
    • Figure 7: Memcached QoS / Thread Imbalance
    • Figure 8: Simulation Rate vs. Scale
    • Figure 9: Simulation Rate vs. Link Latency
    • Running all experiments at once
• Targets
  • Restrictions on Target-RTL
  • Generating Different Target-RTL
  • Rocket Chip Generator-based SoCs (firesim project)
    • Rocket-based SoCs
    • BOOM-based SoCs
    • Changing The DRAM Model
  • Midas Examples (midasexamples project)
    • Examples
• Debugging
  • Debugging & Testing with RTL Simulation
    • Target-Level Simulation
    • MIDAS-Level Simulation
    • FPGA-Level Simulation
    • Scala Tests
  • Debugging Using FPGA Integrated Logic Analyzers (ILA)
    • Annotating Signals
    • Using the ILA at Runtime
  • Debugging Using TracerV
    • Building a Design with TracerV
    • Enabling Tracing at Runtime
    • Interpreting the Trace Result
  • Assertion Synthesis
    • Enabling Assertion Synthesis
    • Runtime Behavior
    • Related Publications
• Tutorial: Developing New Devices
  • Getting Started
  • Memory-mapped Registers
  • DMA and Interrupts
    • TileLink Client Port
    • TileLink Protocol and State Machine
    • Interrupts
  • Connecting Devices to Bus
    • SoC Mixin Traits
    • Top-Level Design and Configuration
  • Running Test Software
    • Debugging Verilog Simulation
  • Creating Simulation Model
• Supernode
  • Intro
  • Build
  • Running simulations
  • Work in Progress!
• Miscellaneous Tips
  • Add the fsimcluster column to your AWS management console
  • FPGA Dev AMI Remote Desktop Setup
  • Experimental Support for SSHing into simulated nodes and accessing the internet from within simulations
  • Navigating the FireSim Codebase
• FireSim Asked Questions
  • I just bumped the FireSim repository to a newer commit and simulations aren’t running. What is going on?

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• Module Index
• Search Page