An architecture of distributed co-simulation backplane

Author

Atef, Dina ; Salem, Ashraf ; Baraka, Hoda

Author_Institution

Mentor Graphics, Cairo, Egypt

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

855

Abstract

This paper implements a distributed co-simulation backplane based on the client-server model. The backplane is the channel through which the different simulators (solvers), communicate. The proposed architecture is based on running the different simulators on different workstations. The simulators are connected together through a high speed LAN (Fast-Ethernet). The backplane is a multi-threaded TCP server running on one of the workstations connected to the same LAN. The proposed architecture gets use of the available networks evolution and resources, it offloads each workstation and adds only the overhead of communication to the original simulator

Keywords

VLSI; circuit simulation; client-server systems; network servers; parallel architectures; system buses; very high speed integrated circuits; workstation clusters; Fast-Ethernet; client-server model; distributed VHDL simulator; distributed VHDL-AMS simulator; distributed co-simulation backplane architecture; high speed LAN; multi-threaded TCP server; workstations; Backplanes; Circuit simulation; Ethernet networks; Feedback; Graphics; Local area networks; Network servers; Sockets; Spine; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1999. 42nd Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Las Cruces, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5491-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1999.867769

Filename

867769