Parallel Simulation of Digital LSI Circuits

Abstract

Integrated circuit technology has been advancing at a phenomenal rate over the last several years, and promises to continue to do so. If circuit design is to keep pace with fabrication technology, radically new approaches to computer-aided design will be necessary. One appealing approach is general purpose parallel processing. This explores the issues involved in developing a framework for circuit simulation which exploits the locality exhibited by circuit operation to achieve a high degree of parallelism.