Analysis and Simulation of Mixed-Technology VLSI Systems (2002)
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@MISC{Martin02analysisand,
author = {Dale E. Martin and Radharamanan Radhakrishnan and Dhananjai M. Rao and Malolan Chetlur and Krishnan Subramani and Philip A. Wilsey},
title = {Analysis and Simulation of Mixed-Technology VLSI Systems},
year = {2002}
}
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Abstract
... aided design (CAD) methods for verification and analysis of, integrated circuitdesigns. Apopularapproachtomodelingcircuitsforsimulation purposesistouseahardwaredescriptionlanguagesuchasVHDL. VHDL hashadatremendousimpactinfosteringandaccelerating CADsystemsdevelopmentinthedigitalarena. Similar efforts have also been carried out in the analog domain which hasresultedintools such as SPICE. However,withthe growing trend of hardware designs that contain both analog and digital components, comprehensive design environments that seamlessly integrate analoganddigitalcircuitryareneeded. Simulationofdigitaloranalogcircuitsis, however, exacerbatedbyhigh-resource(CPUandmemory)demands thatincreasewhenanaloganddigital modelsareintegratedina mixed-mode (analog and digital) simulation. A cost-effectivesolutiontothisproblemis theapplicationofparalleldiscrete-event simulation (PDES) algorithms on a distributed memoryplatformsuchasaclusterofworkstations. In this paper, wedetailoureffortsinarchitectingananalysis andsimulationenvironment for mixed-technology VLSI systems. In addition, we describe the design issues faced in the application of PDES algorithms to mixed-technology VLSI system simulation.
