Title :
`NCHIPSIM´-a microcomputer simulator of NMOS chip performance indicators
Author :
Goel, Ashok K. ; Schuermeyer, Fritz L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Michigan Technol. Univ., Houghton, MI, USA
Abstract :
The authors have developed a computer simulator called `NCHIPSIM´ which can be used to simulate with a microcomputer the performance indicators of an integrated circuit microprocessor chip based on silicon NMOS technology. In addition to predicting the various chip performance indicators such as its size, power consumption, maximum clock frequency, computational capacity, functional throughput and the fabrication yield for a chip with given technology parameters, the simulator can also be used to simulate the dependence of any of the performance indicators based on the technology feature size as well as on the integration level of the chip
Keywords :
MOS integrated circuits; digital simulation; electronic engineering computing; microcomputer applications; microprocessor chips; NCHIPSIM; NMOS chip performance indicators; Si; computational capacity; computer simulator; fabrication yield; functional throughput; integrated circuit; integration level; maximum clock frequency; microcomputer simulator; microprocessor chip; power consumption; technology feature size; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Energy consumption; Integrated circuit technology; MOS devices; Microcomputers; Microprocessor chips; Predictive models; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI, 1991. Proceedings., First Great Lakes Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kalamazoo, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2170-2
DOI :
10.1109/GLSV.1991.143990
