Atoms-A Tool For Automatic Optimization of Gate Level VHDL Models for Simulation

摘要

This paper proposes a new method to speedup simulation of VHDL models. Therefore, a tool named ATOMS(Automatic Optimization of VHDL Models for Simultion) reads in a VHDL source model and genrates automatically a new optimized VHDL model which is simulated faster by the same simulator. ATOMS arises out of an paproach to speedup simulation of a RISC computer system running its operating system. The CPU is modeled near gate level to calculate the rate of gate level faults covered by pin level faults. This is performed by software based fault injection experiments.