Fast FDTD simulation of multiscale 3D models using laguerre-MNA

Author

Srinivasan, K. ; Engin, E. ; Swaminathan, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

fYear

2007

fDate

13-16 May 2007

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

144

Abstract

Transient simulation using Laguerre polynomials is an unconditionally stable method, where the time-step is not limited by the fine resolution of the model. In this paper, a circuit model of the 3D FDTD grid for transient simulation using Laguerre polynomials has been derived. The circuit model enables FDTD simulation with Laguerre polynomials using the Spice MNA engine. In addition, circuit models help reduce the number of unknowns to be solved without the use of long cumbersome equations. Prior work suffer from the drawback of being able to simulate only for a certain time-duration. A method by which this limitation can be removed and accurate simulation can be carried out for all time has been outlined in this paper.

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; network analysis; polynomials; stochastic processes; 3D FDTD simulation; Laguerre polynomials; Spice MNA engine; circuit model; finite-difference time-domain method; Capacitors; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Equations; Finite difference methods; Flowcharts; Inductors; Polynomials; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Propagation on Interconnects, 2007. SPI 2007. IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Genova

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1223-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1224-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPI.2007.4512233

Filename

4512233