Multidimensional digital signal processing

The computer program SIMUL is intended to simulate the ALPS system architecture at a high level so as to answer such questions as: is a signal processing application feasible with a particular hardware configuration?; how fast can the processing be performed?; will the system degrade gracefully if some of the resources fail?; what is the effect upon system performance of changes to details such as the number of resources available, the execution time of a resource etc. This document should be read in conjunction with previous documentation for ALPS. The program takes as input data the following information: the number of nodes in the signal flow graph, the number of types of resources, the number of data busses, the time to transfer a block of data from one resource to another, the signal flow graph connectivity and edge prioritization in the form of an adjacency matrix, the number of each type of resource, the execution time of each resource and the type of resource associated with each graph node.