DocumentCode
3435941
Title
Acceleration of behavioral simulation on simulation specific machines
Author
Shoji, Minoru ; Hirose, Fumiyasu ; Shimogori, Shintaro ; Kowatari, Satoshi ; Nagai, Hiroshi
Author_Institution
CAD Group, Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
fYear
1997
fDate
17-20 Mar 1997
Firstpage
373
Lastpage
377
Abstract
Behavioral simulation is faster than gate-level logic simulation, however the simulation speed is too slow for large systems. Simulation specific machines accelerate simulation by parallel processing. We developed the method to extract parallelism from behavioral descriptions for fast simulation utilizing these machines. We evaluated our methods utilizing CAD accelerator TP5000. By the extraction of the parallelism the simulation speed is accelerated by about 7 times
Keywords
circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; CAD accelerator; behavioral descriptions; behavioral simulation; logic simulation; parallel processing; simulation specific machines; simulation speed; Acceleration; Circuit simulation; Design automation; Digital systems; Discrete event simulation; Joining processes; Large-scale systems; Logic design; Logic gates; Parallel processing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
European Design and Test Conference, 1997. ED&TC 97. Proceedings
Conference_Location
Paris
ISSN
1066-1409
Print_ISBN
0-8186-7786-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EDTC.1997.582385
Filename
582385
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