HAL: A block level HArdware Logic simulator

  • Authors:
  • Tohru Sasaki;Nobuhiko Koike;Kenji Ohmori;Kyoji Tomita

  • Affiliations:
  • NEC Corporation, 10, I-Chome, Nisshin-Cho, Fuchu City, TOKYO, 183 JAPAN;NEC Corporation, 10, I-Chome, Nisshin-Cho, Fuchu City, TOKYO, 183 JAPAN;NEC Corporation, 10, I-Chome, Nisshin-Cho, Fuchu City, TOKYO, 183 JAPAN;NEC Corporation, 10, I-Chome, Nisshin-Cho, Fuchu City, TOKYO, 183 JAPAN

  • Venue:
  • DAC '83 Proceedings of the 20th Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

A special purpose hardware machine, which simulates up to one half million gates and 2M byte RAM ICs at a 5 millisecond clock speed, is described. This is accomplished with a HArdware Logic (HAL) simulator. This performance is achieved with 32 distributed special parallel processors, which utilize Block Oriented Simulation Technique. The technique promises a good cost hardware logic simulator.