Title :
Multi-threaded circuit simulation using OpenMP
Author_Institution :
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
Abstract :
Circuit-level simulation is a computationally-intensive problem that has proven to be particularly difficult to parallelize. While device evaluation can be performed in parallel in conventional circuit simulators, the execution overhead is high. We show that, by partitioning a circuit, OpenMP can be used to solve sub-circuits in different threads, without compromising accuracy. It is shown that execution time can be reduced proportionally to the number of threads.
Keywords :
"Mathematical model","Instruction sets","Integrated circuit modeling","Acceleration","Computational modeling","Standards","Parallel processing"
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (LASCAS), 2010 First IEEE Latin American Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/LASCAS.2010.7410242