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Pre-requisites.

1. Version of the software recommended

  If you need cross-platform compatibility (I am using
Redhat Linux with g++), please use the following version of 
autoconf: 2.5.7
automake: 1.6.3
g++: 3.2.2-5

or higher

2. You need compile and install SystemC 2.0.1

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Installing:

1. unzip and untar the armn-sim.tar.gz in an 
empty directory

2. change directory to INSTALL_DIR/arm_rel/ns_arm

3. edit the entry in Makefile.am, search for SYSTEMC
   change the pointer to the systemc you have in your
   file system.

4. change directory to INSTALL_DIR/arm_rel

5. type 
  
  %aclocal
  %autoconf
  %automake -a
  %./configure
  %make 



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Quick Run of a 4x4 torus network with ARM PEs
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1. change directory to INSTALL_DIR/armn/ns_arm

2. run 

  ./ns_arm_sim ../mp_test/pp_test

  it should do a ping-pong test, printing out a bunch of consecutive 
number. 

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Application Specific Simulation
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I provide a few test binary for application specific simulation. 
The source of the simulation application are in $INSTALL_DIR/armn/apps
and the binary are in $INSTALL_DIR/armn/mp_test.

Since these application are multi-PE based so you need a message passing
library (provided with the toolsuite) and a crosscompiler to accomplish
that. A crosscompiler can compile machine binary (for example, an ARM 
binary) on a machine with different ISA (e.g. X86).

In this case you need a GNU toolchain for the target ARM-linux you can refer
to a note written by Wei Qin at 

http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~wqin/build.htm