Accuracy management for mixed-mode digital VLSI simulation

  • Authors:
  • Gary L. Dare;Charles A. Zukowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Motorola Labs, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois;Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York

  • Venue:
  • GLSVLSI '00 Proceedings of the 10th Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Accuracy Management (AM) offers delay-oriented control of simulation accuracy in automated mixed-mode simulation of digital VLSI circuits. AM heuristics, with little additional computation, can achieve a required level of accuracy in output timing predictions while insuring computational efficiency by using simulations with appropriate levels of accuracy throughout a circuit. These results are demonstrated through both mathematical predictions on some benchmark circuit topologies, and actual mixed-mode timing simulations on large combinational circuit benchmarks. Simulation speedups of 5-10 over corresponding standard, wave-form relaxation-based circuit simulations are demonstrated.