Event-EMU: an event driven timing simulator for MOS VLSI circuits
- 7 January 2003
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
An event-driven approach to MOS timing simulation is presented, which has proved to be more efficient and reliable than time-step-based methods. The MOS network is statically partitioned into groups of strongly coupled nodes called regions. Regions are scheduled for evaluation using a priority event queue. Events are predictions of the time at which nodes within a region will change by more than a voltage threshold. Region evaluation is performed using a single modeling step followed by linear relaxation. The simulator has been used to verify the timing and functionality of a number of large (>500 K transistors) VLSI chips. Performance is 2-5 times faster than time-step-based methods and 200-300 times faster than circuit simulation.<>Keywords
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