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- From: cpwen@asterix.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chih-Po Wen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
- Subject: Looking for benchmark suite for circuit simulators
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 07:02:47 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Keywords: Parallel Timing Simulation
-
- Hi,
-
- I am working on a parallel timing simulator on the
- CM5 multiprocessor. A prototype is working now, giving
- speedups up to over 50 for some MOS circuits on a 64-procesor CM5.
-
- While the speedup numbers are quite nice-looking, I
- have no idea what they mean to the community of users of
- timing simulators -- the speedup is certainly program
- and machine dependent.
-
- Is there a standard benchmark suite around that
- can help me to validate my work (in terms of
- absolute running time)? The only thing that
- comes close to that is the "ISCAS benchmark suite".
- However, I was not able to locate works that use
- them to compare the performance of circuit simulators.
- Is there such a thing in CAD research as the fastest
- program or machine for simulating a set of benchmark
- circuits?
-
- Thanks.
-
- Chih-Po
-
- Chih-Po Wen
- graduate student
- Computer Science Division
- U.C. Berkeley
- --
- Chih-Po Wen
- Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley
- cwen@genesis.Berkeley.EDU
-