Title :
Parallel behavior-level simulator based on VHDL-AMS [mixed circuit simulation]
Author :
Wang, Jiafang ; Ye, Yizheng ; Huang, Guoyong
Author_Institution :
Microelectron. Center, Harbin Inst. of Technol., China
Abstract :
This paper proposes a novel approach that makes use of a software package named parallel virtual machine (PVM), which allows a researcher to use workstations as nodes in a parallel processing environment to perform a large-scale simulation. The parallel scheme is described, and the computational power and cost effectiveness of PVM are demonstrated on the problem of simulating mixed circuits
Keywords :
circuit simulation; hardware description languages; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; parallel processing; virtual machines; VHDL-AMS; distributed computers; large-scale simulation; mixed circuit simulation; parallel behavior-level simulator; parallel processing environment; parallel virtual machine; software package; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Continuous time systems; Differential algebraic equations; Hardware; Integrated circuit modeling; Large-scale systems; Nonlinear equations; Transient analysis;
Conference_Titel :
ASIC, 2001. Proceedings. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6677-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICASIC.2001.982660
