Exploiting hierarchy in a cache-based switch-level simulator
Larry G. Jones · 2003
The article presents a caching method that significantly reduces the cost of subnetwork evaluation during switch-level simulation. The method speeds up simulation by as much as a factor of two. While caching may require additional memory it is shown how the structural hierarchy can be exploited to quickly identify subnetworks computing identical functions, merge their cache tables and significantly reduce the memory requirements.>