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Describes this process at it relates to the electronics industry,
focusing on such areas as printed wiring boards, networking,
automatic assembly, surface mount technology, tape automated
bonding, bar coding, and electro-static discharge. Also studies the
effects of group work ethics as a factor in
Concurrent simulation is over twenty years old. During that pe riod
it has been widely adopted for the simulation of faults in digital
circuits, for which it provides a combination of extreme efficiency
and generality . Yet, it is remarkable that no book published so
far presents a correct and sufficiently detailed treatment of
concurrent simulation. A first reason to welcome into print the
effort of the authors is, therefore, that it provides a much needed
account of an important topic in design automation. This book is,
however, unique for sev eral other reasons. It is safe to state
that no individual has contrib uted more than Ernst Ulrich to the
development of digital logic simulation. For concurrent simulation,
one may say that Ernst has contributed more than the rest of the
world. We would find such a claim difficult to dispute. The unique
experience of the authors con fers a special character to this
book: It is authoritative, inspired, and focused on what is
conceptually important. Another unique aspect of this book, perhaps
the one that will be the most surprising for many readers, is that
it is strongly projected towards the future. Concurrent simulation
is presented as a general experimentation methodology and new
intriguing applications are analyzed. The discussion of
multi-domain concurrent simulation-- recent work of Karen Panetta
Lentz and Ernst Ulrich---is fascinat ing."
The two unique benefits of Concurrent and Comparative Discrete
Event Simulation are: speed, which is usually 1000 to 10 000 times
faster than conventional discrete event simulation; and
methodology, which permits the concurrent/comparative simulation of
many thousands of experiments. One idea is that a one-for-many
experiment, called the reference, is simulated in its entirety,
while all others are simulated only where they differ from the
reference. A second idea extends the first one; many one-for-many
experiments will be significantly more efficient than only one
experiment. These two ideas result in tremendous efficiencies,
permitting the concurrent simulation of tens of thousands of
experiments. The material in the book covers a vast application
area in the scientific and business world. For example, in the
design experimentation of nuclear power plant operations, many
scenarios can be simulated to derive desirable designs or safe
operating procedures. Concurrent fault simulation is already a
mature technique in the computer aided design of digital systems.
Concurrent/Comparative Simulation (CCS) of several instruction sets
for a computer can help a designer in making performance tradeoffs.
One of the most powerful future applications for CCS/MDCCS
(Concurrent and Comparative Simulation/Multi-Domain Concurrent and
Comparative Simulation) will be in the testing and debugging of
computer programs.
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