EURODAC'96. Designer's Tracks

Simulation of an ATM Network Using Verilog

Jacobo Riesco
jacobo@geocities.com
José Luis Conesa
conesa@tid.es
Christian Reillo
creillo@tid.es
Juan Carlos Díaz
jcdiaz@tid.es
Luis Merayo
 
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Emilio Vargas, 6, 28043 Madrid. Spain.

European Design and Test Conference (EURO-DAC'96)
Geneva (Switzerland). September 16-20, 1996.

ABSTRACT
High level modelling and simulation is a key element in the initial definition phase of an integrated circuit (ASIC) that is going to form part of a system. In this paper, the modelling and simulation with Verilog of the multiplexer/demultiplexer elements of a very high speed ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) network is presented. The system is built up by several ATM nodes that insert and extract traffic in a 2.5 Gbit/s channel, and where each node receives the traffic from an aggregate of on-off sources. Several simulations were performed with different algorithms for the common medium access control. Once the access algorithm was determined, several traffic patterns were also simulated to verify the system performance. The analysis of results was accomplished by means of a statistical study of the nodes traffic queue lengths histograms and of the cell delay variations in communications.


Related files:
[Paper (PDF)] edac96.pdf Paper (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format PDF)
[Slides (PDF)] edac96pp.pdf Presentation Slides (PDF)

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