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An evaluation system for distributed-time VHDL simulation

Published: 01 July 1994 Publication History

Abstract

Performance of VHDL simulation is a critical issue in electronic circuit design and is hard to achieve due to the complexity of the language and the different abstraction levels.
This paper presents a system for performance evaluation of distributed-time VHDL simulation based on the analysis of simulation traces. The system allows to model different architectures, interconnection topologies and simulation algorithms. The main tools are a VHDL analyzer to extract dependencies, and a trace-driven simulator to evaluate the execution time on a given architecture.

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cover image ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest  Volume 24, Issue 1
July 1994
192 pages
ISSN:0163-6103
DOI:10.1145/195291
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  • cover image ACM Conferences
    PADS '94: Proceedings of the eighth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
    August 1994
    196 pages
    ISBN:1565550277
    DOI:10.1145/182478

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 July 1994
Published in SIGSIM Volume 24, Issue 1

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