Automatic parallelization of the visual data-flow language Cantata for efficient characterization of analog circuit behavior

Author

Goedecke, Michael ; Huss, Sorin A. ; Morich, Kai

Author_Institution

Integrated Circuits & Syst. Lab., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

5-9 Sep 1995

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

76

Abstract

The paper presents a new approach to the characterization of analog circuits based on the visual data-flow language Cantata which has been augmented with some application specific functions and control operators. For the reduction of execution time a new data-flow scheduler for a distributed environment is proposed. The scheduler takes information about usable workstations and their performance, program availability and the actual workloads into consideration to achieve a load balancing which results in shorter execution times. This process is fully automated

Keywords

analogue circuits; circuit analysis computing; computational complexity; digital simulation; engineering workstations; parallel languages; parallel programming; processor scheduling; resource allocation; visual languages; workstations; Cantata visual data-flow language; analog circuit behavior characterisation; application specific functions; automatic parallelization; control operators; data-flow scheduler; distributed environment; execution time reduction; fully automated process; load balancing; program availability; simulation; usable workstation performance; usable workstations; workloads; Analog circuits; Analog integrated circuits; Analytical models; Application software; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Parallel processing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, Proceedings., 11th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7045-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1995.520787

Filename

520787