General purpose simulation tool for analyzing switching systems

Modern high speed communication networks use highly parallel switching systems to achieve high throughput. Various switching systems have been proposed for this purpose. To make evaluation and design of such systems easier and to gain a better understanding the authors have designed and implemented a general purpose tool for evaluating switching systems. The goal of the design is to create an efficient tool which is general enough to allow performance evaluation of a variety of different switching architectures. The novel aspects of the tool presented include easy network construction and interaction, visualization and animation of network state and statistics, and fast simulation without compilation