Asynchronous parallel simulation with transaction events

In recent years several approaches for parallel SystemC simulation were proposed, which are mainly based on the synchronous parallel simulation principle.We propose a new simulation approach which uses the asynchronous parallel simulation principle. By using an appropriate modeling style where the communication is modeled by transaction events our kernel can exploit the inherent parallelism of simulation models. Experiments show that our approach can exploit the inherent parallelism in cases where the classical synchronous approach cannot. In this paper the underlying simulation algorithm and the modeling constructs are presented.