Title :
The Yorktown Simulation Engine
Author :
Denneau, Monty M.
Author_Institution :
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NJ
Abstract :
The Yorktown Simulation Engine (YSE) is a high speed special purpose parallel processor designed and built at the I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Research Center to simulate the logical operation of large digital networks. A full YSE configuration simulates networks of up to 2,000,000 gates at a rate exceeding 3 billion gate computations per second, doing more simulation in just eight hours than an IBM 370/168 does in an entire year. This paper reviews gate-level logic simulation and describes the architecture and hardware implementation of the YSE. A companion paper by G. Pfister and E. Kronstadt discusses the YSE software.
Keywords :
Circuit simulation; Clocks; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Delay effects; Engines; Logic gates; Process design; Pulse circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation, 1982. 19th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-89791-020-6
DOI :
10.1109/DAC.1982.1585480
