Title :
SUGAR: an event driven circuit simulator
Author :
Patrick, D. ; Lyden, C.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Microelectron. Res. Centre, Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
The SUGAR algorithm is presented which outperforms conventional circuit simulation techniques on large circuits by fully exploiting latency. The event-driven technology does not have the convergence problems associated with SPICE-like algorithms. Examples were presented that show the accuracy of the results by comparison with SPICE, and show the improvement in CPU usage for simple MOS circuits containing a high degree of latency
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; computational complexity; field effect integrated circuits; CPU time; MOS circuits; SUGAR algorithm; accuracy; event driven circuit simulator; exploiting latency; large circuits; Central Processing Unit; Circuit simulation; Convergence; Costs; Coupling circuits; Delay; Discrete event simulation; Partitioning algorithms; Very large scale integration; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1988., IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Espoo
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1988.15124
