An Asynchronous Distributed Approach for the Simulation of Behavior-Level Models on Parallel Processors

This paper presents an asynchronous distributed approach for the simulation of behavior-level models representing complex digital and VLSI components on a parallel processor. The underlying architecture is a set of concurrent processors that share data through explicit messages such as a hypercube [1]. The approach is implemented on the Bell Labs hypercube [2] that consists of 64 concurrent processors connected by a network of point-to-point communication channels in the plan of a binary 6-cube and provides a protocol-based operating system.