Title :
Acceleration of behavioral simulation on simulation specific machines
Author :
Shoji, Minoru ; Hirose, Fumiyasu ; Shimogori, Shintaro ; Kowatari, Satoshi ; Nagai, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
CAD Group, Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
Abstract :
Behavioral simulation is faster than gate-level logic simulation, however the simulation speed is too slow for large systems. Simulation specific machines accelerate simulation by parallel processing. We developed the method to extract parallelism from behavioral descriptions for fast simulation utilizing these machines. We evaluated our methods utilizing CAD accelerator TP5000. By the extraction of the parallelism the simulation speed is accelerated by about 7 times
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; hardware description languages; high level synthesis; CAD accelerator; behavioral descriptions; behavioral simulation; logic simulation; parallel processing; simulation specific machines; simulation speed; Acceleration; Circuit simulation; Design automation; Digital systems; Discrete event simulation; Joining processes; Large-scale systems; Logic design; Logic gates; Parallel processing;
Conference_Titel :
European Design and Test Conference, 1997. ED&TC 97. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7786-4
DOI :
10.1109/EDTC.1997.582385
