DocumentCode :
2782580
Title :
A visual environment for designing and simulating execution of processor arrays
Author :
Norton, Charles D. ; Glinert, Ephraim P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY, USA
fYear :
1990
fDate :
4-6 Oct 1990
Firstpage :
227
Lastpage :
232
Abstract :
NOVIS, a visual environment which supports the interactive development and animated simulation of special-purpose parallel architectures, is presented. NOVIS lets users design networks at an abstract level by placing processing elements into a connected grid of arbitrary (user-selected) shape. The environment´s underlying philosophy of maximal information hiding makes intimate familiarity on the part of the user with the details of low-level issues (such as process schedule maintenance and event dispatching) unnecessary. Layout violations and exceptions detected during execution simulation (e.g., deadlock) are automatically reported to the user. An overview of NOVIS´s features is followed by examples that show the environment´s capabilities in a variety of useful applications
Keywords :
circuit CAD; computer animation; digital simulation; engineering graphics; interactive programming; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; programming environments; visual programming; NOVIS; animated simulation; connected grid; deadlock; event dispatching; exception reporting; interactive development; layout violations; low-level issues; maximal information hiding; network design; process schedule maintenance; processor array execution; special-purpose parallel architectures; visual environment; Animation; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Dispatching; Message passing; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Scheduling; Shape;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, 1990., Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Skokie, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2090-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WVL.1990.128411
Filename :
128411
Link To Document :
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