Monte Carlo hardware simulator for electron dynamics in semiconductors. Part II: A parallel approach to the Poisson equation solution

Author

Negoi, Andy ; Bara, Stefan ; Zimmermann, Jacques

Author_Institution

CNRS, Grenoble, France

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

7-11 Oct 1997

Firstpage

293

Abstract

This paper addresses the need of a high-speed hardware solver for a partial differential equation of the second order, with application to Poisson´s equation. The solution presented will be a part of a hardware device simulator using the Monte Carlo method. We present simulation results to demonstrate the advantage of a parallel computing solution using the finite differences method over a classic Gauss-Seidel iteration process

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; Poisson distribution; digital simulation; finite difference methods; partial differential equations; semiconductor device models; semiconductors; Monte Carlo hardware simulator; Poisson equation solution; classic Gauss-Seidel iteration process; electron dynamics; finite differences method; parallel approach; parallel computing solution; partial differential equation; second order; semiconductor device; semiconductors; Acceleration; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Electrons; Finite difference methods; Gaussian processes; Hardware; Monte Carlo methods; Parallel processing; Poisson equations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Conference, 1997. CAS '97 Proceedings., 1997 International

Conference_Location

Sinaia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3804-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMICND.1997.651601

Filename

651601