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Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '99)
Software Bit-Slicing: A Technique for Improving Simulation Performance
Munich, Germany
March 09-March 12
ISBN: 0-7695-0078-1
Peter M. Maurer, University of South Florida
William J. Schilp, University of South Florida
For some types of simulation, it is difficult or impossible to improve performance by packing several vectors to be packed into a single word. One example of such an algorithm is Inversion Algorithm, which does not represent net values in the conventional way. This paper presents a novel technique, called software bit-slicing, for performing simultaneous simulation of several input vectors on a conventional uniprocessor. As with conventional vector-packing techniques, this technique is able to assign a different input vector to each bit of a word, permitting the simultaneous simulation of n vectors, where n is the number of bits in a word. The Inversion Algorithm is used to give an example of this technique. For this example, a 6x speedup can be realized by using software bit-slicing. The same technique should be widely applicable to many different types of simulation.
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Peter M. Maurer, William J. Schilp, "Software Bit-Slicing: A Technique for Improving Simulation Performance," date, pp.786, Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '99), 1999
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