SLS—a fast switch level simulator for verification and fault coverage analysis

  • Authors:
  • Z. Barzilai;D. K. Beece;L. M. Hiusman;V. S. Iyegar;G. M. Silberman

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY;Dept. of Computer Science, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

  • Venue:
  • DAC '86 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

We describe SLS, a large capacity, high performance switch level simulator, developed to run on an IBM System/370 architecture, that uses a model which closely reflects the behavior of MOS circuits. This performance is the result of mixing a compiled model with the more traditional approach of event-driven simulation control, together with very efficient algorithms for evaluating the steady state response of the circuit. SLS is used for design verification/checking applications and for estimating fault coverage.