Hi Ayman,

I would suggest you take a look at: 
http://www.powmon.ecs.soton.ac.uk/powermodeling/ and the MICRO-48 tutorial in 
particular.

McPat is fraught with issues (I would go as far as calling it a random-number 
generator), and in most cases you are much better off using top-down power 
models.

Andreas

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Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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Date: Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 15:48
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Subject: Re: [gem5-users] gem5 energy output

Hi Ayman,

gem5 has some support for energy modeling for a few objects (e.g., the DRAM 
controller, maybe others). However, it does not have energy numbers for the CPU 
cores. To get CPU-core energy you would need to take the gem5 stats output, 
which includes functional unit activation information, and pass this into McPAT 
which takes the activation information and returns power/energy.

Cheers,
Jason

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 10:09 AM Moussa, Ayman 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear all


I'm kind of new to gem5 but I have been toying around with it for a few months 
via the tutorial and wiki pages. I'm using gem5 for my graduation thesis. To my 
knowledge, gem5 doesn't provide information about the energy consumed by 
individual functional units? (ALUs, FPUs etc) By examining stats.txt, I see 
under the SimObject statistics for the memory controller that there are some 
entries about energy but I do not understand fully what they represent (I 
checked the wiki too). This may be a silly question but why would I need to 
link gem5 to McPat if I wanted to see the energy consumption of the program?


Thank you

Ayman

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