ORION 2.0: A fast and accurate NoC power and area model for early-stage design space exploration

By Andrew B. Kahng, Bin Li, Li-Shiuan Peh, K. Samadi. 2009 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2009

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McPAT: An integrated power, area, and timing modeling framework for multicore and manycore architectures (2009, neutral): “Unlike Orion 2 [18] that only models area and power, McPAT models power, area and timing.”
Kernel Fusion: An Effective Method for Better Power Efficiency on Multithreaded GPU (2010, methodology): “Basing on this GPU simulator, we extend it with Wattch [10] and Orion [11] power model.”
The gem5 simulator (2011, methodology): “While external power models such as Orion [6] and McPAT [8] have been used with GEMS and M5, we are working on a more comprehensive, modular, and integrated power model for gem5.”
The structural simulation toolkit (2011, neutral): “To assist the designer with power and energy estimation, the SST provides a common interface to a variety of power estimation libraries including McPAT [23], Orion [7], and Sim-Panalyzer[3].”
TETRIS: Scalable and Efficient Neural Network Acceleration with 3D Memory (2017, methodology): “For remote accesses to other vaults, the NoC power is estimated using ORION 2.0 [24].”
DSENT - A Tool Connecting Emerging Photonics with Electronics for Opto-Electronic Networks-on-Chip Modeling (2012, methodology): “Among all the tools that provide power models for NoCs [19] [20] [21] [22], Orion [19] [22], which provides parametrized power and area models for routers and links, is the most widely used in the community.”