Introducing IntSim v2.5

Today, let's check out IntSim v2.5, the latest version of our open-source chip simulator. IntSim v2.5 has a powerful and simple-to-use GUI and helps optimize 2D and 3D chips.

As many of you know, IntSim is an open-source 2D/3D chip simulator that's been developed at Georgia Tech and MonolithIC 3D Inc. Using IntSim, one can optimize various parameters of a 2D/3D chip such as power, die size, number of metal levels, size of metal levels, gate count and clock frequency. The simulator helps study scaling trends and is a fun tool for students to intuitively learn how a chip works. 

MonolithIC 3D Inc. is pleased to introduce the next version of the simulator, IntSim v2.5, to you today. We've added a great new GUI in this version of the simulator.

                                              Double-click on the icon below to download and run IntSim v2.5

Here is a summary of features added in this version:

• Significantly improved Input and Output GUIs,
• Store and load technology files, and
  
• Sweep and optimize parameter values.

Please see the slideshow below for pictures of our GUI. For more details of IntSim, please refer to our Simulators page. Here is an EETimes story where IntSim was used to study how a tri-gate transistor impacted chip power.

We had an intern, Parthiv Mohan, over for the summer and he implemented these features. Parthiv is a student at Saratoga High School, and that's him grinning at you from the picture alongside :-) We were quite impressed with Parthiv's work, and if you try using the GUI, you'll know what I mean. We told Parthiv the features we wanted, and he implemented all of them independently in JAVA without requiring too much guidance. Pretty good for a high-school student!

We hope you will have fun using IntSim v2.5. And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to e mail us at [email protected]       

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