An application of parallel discrete event simulation algorithms to mixed domain system simulation

Abstract

We present our system-level co-simulation environment for mixed domain microsystems. The environment provides synchronization and co-simulation between the Chatoyant MOEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems) simulator and ModelTech ModelSim. By using shared memory IPC (inter-process communication) and PDES (parallel discrete event simulation) techniques, we achieve two orders of magnitude speedup over standard pipe/socket communication.