In a few years, it will probably become very cost-effective to build large disorganized swarms of unreliable processors, connected locally by unreliable communication links, providing much cheaper MIPS than are available today. Cheap swarms of processors will be embedded into smart materials and smart paint . The processors will form an amorphous mass of computational gunk. There is a short list of technical problems to be solved, mainly power distribution and communication. This simulator portrays a rectangular surface coated with colored points, each representing a 68000 processor with some memory.
Program memory is read-only, and identical for each processor.
Because of simulation memory limitations, the memory for stack and variables is small, but controllable with a command line option. It employs a free-form input language and state variable methods to simulate problems of interest to electrical engineers. Circuit elements may be described as constants, tabular data, or abritrary functions of other network quantities. Flexible modeling capability. The arbitrary functional capability allows any device to be modeled to the degree of accuracy required for an analysis.