{"title":"MOSSIM: A Switch-Level Simulator for MOS LSI","authors":"R. Bryant","doi":"10.1145/62882.62933","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The logic simulator MOSSIM is designed specifically to serve the needs of the MOS LSI designer. It models a MOS circuit as a network of field-effect transistor \"switches\", with node states 0, 1, and X (unknown) and transistor states \"open\", \"closed\", and \"unknown\". MOSSIM has proved quite versatile and accurate in simulating a variety of MOS designs including ones for which the network was extracted automatically from the mask specifications. Because it models the network at a logical level, it has a performance comparable to conventional logic gate simulators.","PeriodicalId":201443,"journal":{"name":"18th Design Automation Conference","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1981-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"80","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"18th Design Automation Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/62882.62933","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The logic simulator MOSSIM is designed specifically to serve the needs of the MOS LSI designer. It models a MOS circuit as a network of field-effect transistor "switches", with node states 0, 1, and X (unknown) and transistor states "open", "closed", and "unknown". MOSSIM has proved quite versatile and accurate in simulating a variety of MOS designs including ones for which the network was extracted automatically from the mask specifications. Because it models the network at a logical level, it has a performance comparable to conventional logic gate simulators.