%0 Journal Article %A Colmenar, J. Manuel %A Risco Martín, José Luis %A Lanchares Dávila, Juan %T An Overview of Computer Architecture and System Simulation %D 2011 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/122330 %X This work presents an overview of the modeling and simulation challenges that currently exist in the area of computer architecture design. First, we describe the requirements that a modeling and simulation framework must have in this particular application domain. Then, we review different state-of-the-art frameworks that we have classified taking into account the kind of source system they model. %~