TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating the use of pre-simulation in VLSI circuit partitioning
AU - Chamberlain, Roger D.
AU - Henderson, Cheryl D.
PY - 1994/8/1
Y1 - 1994/8/1
N2 - One of the significant difficulties in partitioning logic circuits for distributed simulation is the lack of a priori knowledge concerning the evaluation frequency of individual circuit elements. A number of researchers have resorted to pre-simulation to estimate these evaluation frequencies. In this paper we empirically investigate the wisdom of relying on presimulation results, and evaluate the degree to which early evaluation frequencies predict later evaluation frequencies. The results show that, for simulations that use random input vectors, pre-simulation has clear merit in predicting circuit element evaluation frequency. This supports the use of pre-simulation as an input to circuit partitioning algorithms.
AB - One of the significant difficulties in partitioning logic circuits for distributed simulation is the lack of a priori knowledge concerning the evaluation frequency of individual circuit elements. A number of researchers have resorted to pre-simulation to estimate these evaluation frequencies. In this paper we empirically investigate the wisdom of relying on presimulation results, and evaluate the degree to which early evaluation frequencies predict later evaluation frequencies. The results show that, for simulations that use random input vectors, pre-simulation has clear merit in predicting circuit element evaluation frequency. This supports the use of pre-simulation as an input to circuit partitioning algorithms.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84992907476
U2 - 10.1145/182478.182581
DO - 10.1145/182478.182581
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992907476
T3 - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, PADS 1994
SP - 139
EP - 146
BT - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, PADS 1994
A2 - Bagrodia, Rajive
A2 - Arvind, D. K.
A2 - Jason, Yi-Bing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, PADS 1994
Y2 - 6 July 1994 through 8 July 1994
ER -