In: Procs. of the Euromicro'93 Conference. Open System Design: Hardware, Software and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, pages 1-11. 1993.
Also in: Microprocessing and Microprogramming. The EUROMICRO Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, pages 1-11. 1993.
Abstract: In this invited work we consider Petri Nets and some interpretations to describe systems in the computer architecture domain. Petri Nets allow to model complex relations of synchronization and concurrency in a simple way. A Petri net model can be used to understand a given design by simulation as well as to analyze functional and performance properties without changing the representation of the modelled system. A very simple example is used to illustrate the approach together with brief references to a few works from the literature where other architectural problems have been considered from a Petri Net perspective.