Title :
A high performance VHDL simulator for large systems design
Author :
Hodgson, Steve ; Shaar, Zak ; Smith, Andy
Author_Institution :
Design Autom. Centre, ICL, Manchester, UK
Abstract :
The requirements of large system design place great demands upon the performance and diagnostic capabilities of simulation. This paper explains how these requirements have been satisfied by an internally-developed simulator using a proprietary language and a proprietary platform. More significantly, this paper describes how the strengths of that system have been developed to create a VHDL simulator under UNIX while maintaining a performance level that significantly exceeds the leading commercial VHDL simulators
Keywords :
hardware description languages; logic CAD; logic design; VHDL simulator; VHDL simulators; diagnostic capabilities; high performance VHDL simulator; internally-developed simulator; large systems design; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Design automation; Design methodology; Hardware; High performance computing; Operating systems; Runtime; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1995, with EURO-VHDL, Proceedings EURO-DAC '95., European
Conference_Location :
Brighton
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7156-4
DOI :
10.1109/EURDAC.1995.527435
