DocumentCode
2771166
Title
PARASPICE: a parallel circuit simulator for shared-memory multiprocessors
Author
Yang, Gung-Chung
Author_Institution
Center for Supercomput. Res. & Dev., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
24-28 Jun 1990
Firstpage
400
Lastpage
405
Abstract
A general approach to parallelizing standard circuit simulators on shared-memory multiprocessors is described. The approach extracts parallel tasks at the algorithmic level for each compute-intensive module and therefore is suitable for a wide range of shared-memory multiprocessors. The implementation of the approach in SPICE2 resulted in a portable parallel direct circuit simulator, PARASPICE. The superior performance of PARASPICE is demonstrated on an 8-CE Alliant FX/80 using a number of benchmark circuits
Keywords
circuit analysis computing; parallel algorithms; performance evaluation; PARASPICE; SPICE2; algorithmic level; benchmark circuits; compute-intensive module; parallel circuit simulator; parallel tasks; performance; shared-memory multiprocessors; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Linear systems; Parallel processing; Problem-solving; Research and development; Timing; Very large scale integration;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Design Automation Conference, 1990. Proceedings., 27th ACM/IEEE
Conference_Location
Orlando, FL
ISSN
0738-100X
Print_ISBN
0-89791-363-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/DAC.1990.114890
Filename
114890
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