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Hi,

I am working on a parallel timing simulator on the
CM5 multiprocessor. A prototype is working now, giving
speedups up to over 50 for some MOS circuits on a 64-procesor CM5.

While the speedup numbers are quite nice-looking, I
have no idea what they mean to the community of users of
timing simulators -- the speedup is certainly program
and machine dependent.

Is there a standard benchmark suite around that 
can help me to validate my work (in terms of 
absolute running time)? The only thing that
comes close to that is the "ISCAS benchmark suite".
However, I was not able to locate works that use
them to compare the performance of circuit simulators.
Is there such a thing in CAD research as the fastest
program or machine for simulating a set of benchmark
circuits?

Thanks.

Chih-Po

Chih-Po Wen
graduate student
Computer Science Division
U.C. Berkeley
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Chih-Po Wen                                                         
Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley
cwen@genesis.Berkeley.EDU