Simulation in the Design of Digital Electronic Systems

Describes means to assess the accuracy of the design and the testability of a digital electronic system.

John B. Gosling (Author)

9780521416566, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 October 1993

292 pages, 131 b/w illus. 44 tables
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.559 kg

"...very readable and well organized. The examples are good. It covers a large number of topics..." S.G. Shiva, Computing Reviews

This book describes the structure of simulators suitable for use in the design of digital electronic systems. It includes the compiled code and event driven algorithms for digital electronic system simulators, together with timing verification. Limitations of the structures are also discussed. An introduction to the problems of designing models is included, partly to point to how user models might be constructed for application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and so on, and partly to expose the limitations of the modelling process. As a guide to the use of simulators the book includes chapters which introduce the subjects of testing and design for testability. A major chapter is devoted to fault simulation. The text has an introduction to hardware accelerators and modellers.

1. An introduction to the simulation of electronic systems
2. Electronic computer aided design (ECAD) systems
3. Design for testability
4. Exercising the design in simulation and test
5. Input/output if simulation and specification of models
6. Simulation algorithms
7. Models and model design
8. Timing verification
9. Fault simulation
10. Simulator features and extensions.

Subject Areas: Electrical engineering [THR]