Analysis of parallel mixed-mode simulation algorithms

摘要

This paper presents a performance analysis of several parallelalgorithms for the mixed-mode simulation of digital systems. Theperformance model is an architectural simulation of the parallelalgorithms running on a hypercube multiprocessor. Workload data iscollected from a uniprocessor-based mixed-mode simulator on severalbenchmark circuits, and two distinct circuit partitioning algorithms areconsidered. The results indicate that the performance of the parallelsimulations is highly circuit dependent, in some cases performing worsethan a uniprocessor and in others approaching optimal performance