On the simulation performance of contemporary AMS hardware description languages

Proceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 361-364

  Narayanan, Rajeev ^a   Abbasi, Naeem ^a   Zaki, Mohamed ^a   Sammane, Ghiath Al ^a   Tahar, Sofiène ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG AND MIXED SIGNALS; BENCHMARK CIRCUIT; BENCHMARK DESIGNS; C LANGUAGE; HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; MIXED SIGNAL; RUNTIMES; SIMULATION PERFORMANCE; SYSTEMC-AMS; VERILOG; VERILOG-AMS; VHDL-AMS;

ABSTRACTING; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC DESIGN; MICROELECTRONICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77951097323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICM.2008.5393509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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