FireSim: Easy-to-use, Scalable, FPGA-accelerated Cycle-accurate Hardware Simulation

Using FireSim

To get started with using FireSim, see the tutorials on the FireSim documentation site: https://docs.fires.im/

Learn more about FireSim

You can learn more about FireSim in the following places:

• FireSim website: https://fires.im
• FireSim ISCA 2018 Paper: Preprint PDF
• FireSim documentation: https://docs.fires.im
• Two-minute lightning talk from ISCA 2018 (FireSim simulating a datacenter): YouTube

Need help?

• Join the FireSim Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firesim
• Post an issue on this repo
• Follow on Twitter for project updates: @firesimproject

Contributing

• See CONTRIBUTING.md

ISCA 2018 Paper

You can learn more about FireSim in our ISCA 2018 paper, which focuses on FireSim simulations with a globally-cycle-accurate network simulation:

Sagar Karandikar, Howard Mao, Donggyu Kim, David Biancolin, Alon Amid, Dayeol Lee, Nathan Pemberton, Emmanuel Amaro, Colin Schmidt, Aditya Chopra, Qijing Huang, Kyle Kovacs, Borivoje Nikolic, Randy Katz, Jonathan Bachrach, and Krste Asanović. FireSim: FPGA-Accelerated Cycle-Exact Scale-Out System Simulation in the Public Cloud. In proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’18), Los Angeles, CA, June 2018.

Preprint PDF