• DocumentCode
    450451
  • Title

    Simulator for MOS Circuits

  • Author

    Bryant, Randal E. ; Beatty, Derek ; Brace, Karl ; Cho, Kyeongsoon ; Sheffler, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Carnegie Mellon University
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    28-1 June 1987
  • Firstpage
    9
  • Lastpage
    16
  • Abstract
    The COSMOS simulator provides fast and accurate switch-level modeling of MOS digital circuits. It attains high performance by preprocessing the transistor network into a functionally equivalent Boolean representation. This description, produced by the symbolic analyzer ANAMOS, captures all aspects of switch-level networks including bidirectional transistors, stored charge, different signal strengths, and indeterminate (X) logic values. The LGCC program translates the Boolean representation into a set of machine language evaluation procedures and initialized data structures. These procedures and data structures are compiled along with code implementing the simulation kernel and user interface to produce the simulation program. The simulation program runs an order of magnitude faster than our previous simulator MOSSIM II.
  • Keywords
    Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Data structures; Kernel; Logic; Permission; Signal analysis; Switches; Switching circuits; User interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design Automation, 1987. 24th Conference on
  • ISSN
    0738-100X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-0781-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DAC.1987.203215
  • Filename
    1586199