Achieving Structural and Composable Modeling of Complex Systems [abstract] (SpringerLink, PDF)
David I. August, Sharad Malik, Li-Shiuan Peh, Vijay Pai, Manish Vachharajani, and Paul Willmann
The International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Volume 33, June 2005.
Invited.
This paper describes a recently-released, structural and composable
modeling system called the Liberty Simulation Environment (LSE). LSE
automatically constructs simulators from system descriptions that
closely resemble the structure of hardware at the chosen level of
abstraction. Component-based reuse features allow an extremely
diverse range of complex models to be built easily from a core set of
component libraries. This paper also describes the makeup and initial
experience with a set of such libraries currently undergoing
refinement. With LSE and these soon-to-be-released component
libraries, students will be able to learn about systems in a more
intuitive fashion, researchers will be able to collaborate with each
other more easily, and developers will be able to rapidly and
meaningfully explore novel design candidates.