Title :
Scalable parallel matrix solver for steady state analysis of large nonlinear circuits
Author :
Soveiko, Nick ; Nakhla, Michel ; Achar, Ramachandra ; Gad, Emad
Author_Institution :
Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
Abstract :
A parallel iterative matrix solver is proposed. The solver takes advantage of the structure of matrices arising from nonlinear steady state analysis problems to partition the workload. Experimental results show that the efficiency of the proposed method increases with the size of the circuit.
Keywords :
matrix algebra; nonlinear network analysis; large nonlinear circuits; scalable parallel matrix solver; steady state analysis; Central Processing Unit; Circuit simulation; Convolution; Equations; Harmonic analysis; Jacobian matrices; Nonlinear circuits; Radio frequency; Steady-state; Vectors; Distributed memory systems; Frequency domain analysis; Harmonic analysis; Jacobian matrices; Nonlinear circuits; Shared memory systems;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 2008 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1780-3
Electronic_ISBN :
0149-645X
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.2008.4633040
