Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2004. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2085-5
DOI :
10.1109/DATE.2004.1269085
