minor additions authored by Mittal, Sparsh's avatar Mittal, Sparsh
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### Overview ### Overview
DESTINY is an acronym for 3D dEsign-Space exploraTIon Tool for SRAM, eDRAM and Non-volatile memorY. DESTINY is an acronym for 3D dEsign-Space exploraTIon tool for SRAM, eDRAM and Non-volatile memorY.
In its purpose, DESTINY is similar to CACTI, CACTI-3DD or NVSim. In its purpose, DESTINY is similar to CACTI, CACTI-3DD or NVSim.
DESTINY is a tool for modeling both 2D and 3D caches designed with five prominent memory technologies: DESTINY is a tool for modeling both 2D and 3D caches designed with five prominent memory technologies:
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This work was supported by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research in This work was supported by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research in
the U.S. Department of Energy, under the project “Blackcomb - Hardware-Software the U.S. Department of Energy, under the project “Blackcomb - Hardware-Software
Co-design for Non-Volatile Memory in Exascale Systems” (https://ft.ornl.gov/trac/blackcomb/). Co-design for Non-Volatile Memory in Exascale Systems” (https://ft.ornl.gov/trac/blackcomb/).
For information, please see our webpage http://ft.ornl.gov/. For more information, please see our webpage http://ft.ornl.gov/.
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### Relevant papers, acknowledgement and contact information ### Relevant papers and contact information
The following DATE-2015 paper provides a general introduction of DESTINY and the technical report The following DATE-2015 paper provides a general introduction of DESTINY and the technical report
describes the tool in more detail and also shows its use in performing design-space exploration. describes the tool in more detail and also shows its use in performing design-space exploration.
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$ make $ make
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### Running DESTINY ### Running DESTINY
DESTINY must be compiled with a user-specified configuration files, as follows: DESTINY must be compiled with a user-specified configuration files, as follows:
$ ./destiny <file>.cfg $ ./destiny <file>.cfg
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### The meaning and possible values of parameters added in DESTINY ### The meaning and possible values of parameters added in DESTINY
-StackedDieCount - Number of dies over which the memory is distributed -StackedDieCount - Number of dies over which the memory is distributed
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-ForceBankA: Same as ForceBank in NVSim, except forcing the number of active Mats is not required. -ForceBankA: Same as ForceBank in NVSim, except forcing the number of active Mats is not required.
-ForceMatA: Same as ForceMat in NVSim, except forcing the number of active Subarrays is not required. -ForceMatA: Same as ForceMat in NVSim, except forcing the number of active Subarrays is not required.
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### Hacking DESTINY code and possible extensions ### Hacking DESTINY code and possible extensions
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