Automatic parallelization of the visual data-flow language Cantata for efficient characterization of analog circuit behavior

摘要

This paper presents a new approach to the characterization of analog circuits based on the visual dataflow language Cantata which has been augmented with some application specific functions and control operators. For the reduction of execution time a new dataflow scheduler for a distributed environment is proposed. The scheduler takes information about usable workstations and their performance, program availability and the actual workloads into consideration to achieve a load balancing which results in shorter execution times. This process is fully automated.