ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems
Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems
Characterization of parallelism and deadlocks in distributed digital logic simulation
DAC '89 Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Compiling with continuations
pGVT: an algorithm for accurate GVT estimation
PADS '94 Proceedings of the eighth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Parallel logic simulation of VLSI systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Acyclic multi-way partitioning of Boolean networks
DAC '94 Proceedings of the 31st annual Design Automation Conference
ProperHITEC: a portable, parallel, object-oriented approach to sequential test generation
DAC '94 Proceedings of the 31st annual Design Automation Conference
ANTLR: a predicated-LL(k) parser generator
Software—Practice & Experience
PADS '95 Proceedings of the ninth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Asynchronous distributed simulation via a sequence of parallel computations
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on simulation modeling and statistical computing
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Optimizing VHDL Compilation for Parallel Simulation
IEEE Design & Test
Maisie: A Language for the Design of Efficient Discrete-Event Simulations
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A parallel algorithm for fault simulation based on PROOFS
ICCD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors
ProperPLACE: A Portable Parallel Algorithm for Standard Cell Placement
Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
Process combination to increase event granularity in parallel logic simulation
IPPS '95 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
Parallel algorithms for logic synthesis using the MIS approach
IPPS '95 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
Distributed simulation, algorithms and performance analysis (load balancing, distributed processing)
Distributed simulation, algorithms and performance analysis (load balancing, distributed processing)
ICS '97 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Supercomputing
Parallel compiled event driven VHDL simulation
ICS '98 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Supercomputing
PADS '00 Proceedings of the fourteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Automatic Parallelization of Compiled Event Driven VHDL Simulation
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Load Balancing and Workload Minimization Of Overlapping Parallel Tasks
ICPP '97 Proceedings of the international Conference on Parallel Processing
DVS: An Object-Oriented Framework for Distributed Verilog Simulation
Proceedings of the seventeenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Parallelizing CAD: a timely research agenda for EDA
Proceedings of the 45th annual Design Automation Conference
On the scalability and dynamic load balancing of parallel Verilog simulations
Winter Simulation Conference
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One of the methods used to reduce the time spent simulating VHDL designs is by parallelizing the simulation. In this paper, we describe the implementation of an object-oriented Time Warp simulator for VHDL on an actor based environment. The actor model of computation allows the exploitation of fine grained parallelism in a truly asynchronous manner and allows for the overlap of computation with communication. Some preliminary results obtained by simulating a set of multipliers and some ISCAS benchmark circuits are provided. In addition, the importance of placing processes based on circuit partitioning techniques for improving runtimes and scalability is demonstrated. Results are reported on a Sun SPARCServer 1000 and an Intel Paragon.