CacheSimulator

A C program which reads a trace of memory references and reports 3 statistics (accesses, hits and hit rate). The cache configuration is determined by parameters that are passed as command line arguments. The command-line parameters are cache size, cache mapping (DM/FA), and cache organization (Unified/Split).

Running program

VSCode

You can run this code in vscode using the C/C++ extension along with the CodeRunner extension and using these workspace settings

Or you can run it in the termianl with these commands for compiling and executing.

Compile

gcc -o cache_sim cache_sim.c

Run

./cache_sim 1024 dm uc

CL arguments

• 1024 is the cache size in bytes
• dm tells that the cache is directly mappend
• uc signifies a unified cache

The parameters can take the following values:

cache size	128 - 4096 (power of 2)
cache mapping	dm (Direct Mapped or fa (Fully associative)
cache organization	uc (Unified cache) or sc (Split Cache)