alliance-support '1998
HADLOP--ASIMUT


Guido Grimm (grimm@informatik.uni-jena.de)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:45:19 +0100

Hello, we have developed a simulation environment for digital optoelectronic architectures called HADLOP (http://www2.informatik.uni-jena.de/pope/HADLOP/hadlop.html). HADLOP was made to verify algorithms for parallel architectures for optical computing systems. The data between parallel processing units are exchanged by beams of light. So far the functionality of the processing units can be specified by Boolean equations and C/C++ statements, respectively. We would like to provide a VHDL interface for our simulation system. We would like to use your excellent VHDL-simulator ASIMUT for this purpose. Unfortunately, the tool "just" reads a stimulus file and writes the simulation results into an output file. When our simulation tool (HADLOP) performs a single simulation step a stimulus file for ASIMUT would have to be created on disk. Then ASIMUT would have to be started and afterwards HADLOP must read the simulation results for further processing from disk. This has to be done for every single HADLOP-simulation step. Hence, we would appreciate if we could start ASIMUT once and could send a stimulus to the VHDL simulator. This could be done by a shared memory segment or a pipe, for example. In the same way we would like to obtain the simulation results without reading/writing on/from disk. One way to achieve that aim is that we could adapt the source code of the ASIMUT simulation tool. But this adapted module would not be compatible to further improved ASIMUT versions. It would be nice if such an extension could be integrated in all further ASIMUT versions. Of course, we would offer our help in order to provide such an additional module. Please inform us if you think that the suggested interface can be added to ASIMUT. Many thanks, -Guido. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guido Grimm Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Communication Ernst-Abbe-Platz 1-4, 07743 Jena, Germany ++49 3641 946373 grimm@informatik.uni-jena.de http://www2.informatik.uni-jena.de/~grimm/ ----------------------------------------------------------------

 



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