DiPaCS: a new concept for parallel circuit simulation

Author

Klinger, Volkhard

Author_Institution

AB Tech. Inf. 2, Tech. Univ. Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

9-13 Apr 1995

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

41

Abstract

The DiPaCS system, a distributed parallel circuit simulator implementable on multicomputer systems is introduced. Since high complexity and increasing problems in simulating integrated circuits imply an enormous computational expenditure we have tried to reduce the amount of simulation time by parallel processing. A parallel iterative method is presented which is embedded in the concept of a hierarchical circuit simulator where the problem inherent parallelism is used for speeding up purposes

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; integrated circuit layout; iterative methods; parallel machines; parallel programming; DiPaCS system; distributed parallel circuit simulator; hierarchical circuit simulator; integrated circuit simulation; multicomputer systems; parallel circuit simulation; parallel iterative method; parallel processing; Algorithm design and analysis; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Differential algebraic equations; Distributed computing; Nonlinear equations; Parallel processing; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Symposium, 1995., Proceedings of the 28th Annual

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7091-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIMSYM.1995.393596

Filename

393596