SALSIM: A Language for Control of Digital Logic Simulation

摘要

During the development of large-scale-integrated circuits, logic simulation is used to verify the circuit functions and to develop a sequence of input vectors to test the chip after fabrication. In the simulation phase it is necessary to provide a user-oriented simulation language to allow the designer easily to apply the desired states to the input terminals of the network and to monitor its response. The SALSIM language was designed to achieve this goal. The language has three major functions: control of program execution, application of vectors to the input terminals of the network under test, and control of the information generated by the network output. The latter function allows the user to examine the results of the network simulation and to interface the simulaton results with other programs used to generate test sequences or apply the sequences to the actual chip after it is built. Similar to FORTRAN, the language is easy to learn. Typical statements are explained. (ERA citation 03:004754)