Self-adjusting networks for VLSI simulations

  • Authors:
  • J. Gecsei;E. Cerny

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

Magnitude networks [1l, [2] have been used as a theoretical base for switch-level simulation of MOS VLSI circuits. We address in this paper the particular problem of evaluating the influence of switches in unknown state on the steady-state response of the network. A two-pass procedure based on local controllers attached to such switches is described and a hardware implementation is proposed which models magnitude networks as self-adjusting combinational circuits.