Title :
Choosing a digital simulator
Author_Institution :
DA Solutions Ltd., Gosport, UK
Abstract :
This paper summarises the second in a series of benchmarking efforts conducted by DA Solutions between August 1995 and April 1996, for VHDL and Verilog simulators. The paper discusses the methodology used and the results of an independent public benchmark for leading VHDL and Verilog simulators, for RTL, Gate, VITAL and Co-simulations products. The paper also makes performance comparisons between VHDL and Verilog technologies and between PC and UNIX solutions
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; hardware description languages; integrated circuit design; software performance evaluation; software selection; ASIC; Co-simulations; DA Solutions; Gate; RTL; UNIX; VHDL; VITAL; Verilog; benchmark; benchmarking; digital simulator selection; methodology; performance comparisons; personal computer; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Costs; Electronic design automation and methodology; Hardware design languages; Job design; Libraries; Paper technology; Radio access networks;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC '97 Asia and South Pacific
Conference_Location :
Chiba
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3662-3
DOI :
10.1109/ASPDAC.1997.600211
