Workload Distribution in Fault Simulation

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• 作者：Minesh B. Amin and Bapiraju Vinnakota
• 关键词：fault simulation ; logic simulation ; parallel simulation ; parallelization ; workload distribution
• 刊名：Journal of Electronic Testing
• 出版年：1997
• 出版时间：1997
• 年：1997
• 卷：10
• 期：3
• 页码：277-282
• 全文大小：90 KB

文摘

Simulation at the gate level is computationally very expensive.Parallel processing is one technique to reduce simulation time.Possessing knowledge of the distribution of computational activity insimulation can aid in parallelizing it efficiently. We present a newcharacterization of the distribution of the computational workload infault simulation. An empirical analysis shows that the workloaddistribution is circuit specific, and is largely independent of thevector set being simulated. An inexpensive method to predict theworkload distribution is also discussed.