An application of parallel discrete event simulation algorithms to mixed domain system simulation

Author

Reed, D.K. ; Levitan, S.P. ; Boles, J. ; Martinez, J.A. ; Chiarulli, D.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pittsburgh Univ., PA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

16-20 Feb. 2004

Firstpage

1356

Abstract

We present our system-level co-simulation environment for mixed domain microsystems. The environment provides synchronization and co-simulation between the Chatoyant MOEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems) simulator and ModelTech ModelSim. By using shared memory IPC (inter-process communication) and PDES (parallel discrete event simulation) techniques, we achieve two orders of magnitude speedup over standard pipe/socket communication.

Keywords

circuit simulation; discrete event simulation; micromechanical devices; parallel algorithms; synchronisation; Chatoyant micro electro mechanical systems; mixed domain microsystem; mixed domain system simulation; modeltech modelsim simulator; parallel discrete event simulation algorithms; parallel discrete event simulation techniques; shared memory inter process communication; standard pipe/socket communication; synchronization; system level cosimulation; Application software; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Discrete event simulation; Frequency synchronization; Hardware design languages; Optical devices; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2004. Proceedings

ISSN

1530-1591

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2085-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DATE.2004.1269085

Filename

1269085