Background and Recent Related Works

• Hardware-assists

  • WWT [Sigmetrics’93] uses ECC bits

• Trade-offs against simulation accuracy

  • RPPT [Sigmetrics’88]

• Simulation backplanes

  • Brown [DAC’96]

• Event handling

  • Static resolution [French DAC’95]
  • Delayed evaluation [Liao, DAC’97]
  • Parallelization [Krishnaswamy, ASP-DAC’97]
  • Reduction, Suppression [Mostly in timing simulations, e.g., Devadas TCAD’94]

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