학술논문

An architecture of distributed co-simulation backplane
Document Type
Conference
Source
42nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (Cat. No.99CH36356) Circuits and systems Circuits and Systems, 1999. 42nd Midwest Symposium on. 2:855-858 vol. 2 1999
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Backplanes
Workstations
Local area networks
Circuit simulation
Network servers
Graphics
Feedback
Ethernet networks
Sockets
Spine
Language
Abstract
This paper implements a distributed co-simulation backplane based on the client-server model. The backplane is the channel through which the different simulators (solvers), communicate. The proposed architecture is based on running the different simulators on different workstations. The simulators are connected together through a high speed LAN (Fast-Ethernet). The backplane is a multi-threaded TCP server running on one of the workstations connected to the same LAN. The proposed architecture gets use of the available networks evolution and resources, it offloads each workstation and adds only the overhead of communication to the original simulator.