Parallel transient analysis for circuit simulation

Author

Wever, U. ; Zheng, Q.

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. & Dev., Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Jan 1996

Firstpage

442

Abstract

We discuss the application of domain decomposition methods to circuit simulation. This coarse grain parallelization guarantees low communication and this achieves good speedup results on a workstation cluster. The communication can be reduced to a minimum, especially with multilevel Newton methods and iteration latency techniques. The application of these techniques make our parallel implementation very well suited for a workstation cluster with low communication performance

Keywords

Newton method; circuit CAD; circuit analysis computing; engineering workstations; local area networks; parallel algorithms; transient analysis; workstations; circuit simulation; coarse grain parallelization; domain decomposition methods; iteration latency techniques; low communication; multilevel Newton methods; parallel transient analysis; speedup; workstation cluster; Circuit simulation; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Delay; Hardware; Newton method; Research and development; Transient analysis; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7324-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1996.495492

Filename

495492