A backplane approach for cosimulation in high-level system specification environments
S. Schmerler, Yankin Tanurhan, Klaus D. Müller-Glaser · 1995
The design of microelectronic systems including hardware and software for open-loop and closed-loop control requires the combination of expertise from differ-ent domains. However, no integrated approach to the specification and design nor to the analysis and simulation of the overall system is available. The design of such com-plex and heterogeneous systems mandates a systematic, computer aided approach to requirements definition, spec-ification and design as well as to the verification and vali-dation of the results. In this paper a simulation backplane concept is presented for parallel mixed-mode cosimulation using a standardized interface. Synchronization mecha-nisms are developed and used that allow an efficient con-current cosimulation.