Conceptual Design of 3-D FDTD Dedicated Computer With Dataflow Architecture for High Performance Microwave Simulation

Author

Kawaguchi, Hideki ; Matsuoka, Shun-Suke

Author_Institution

Div. of Inf. & Electron. Eng., Muroran Inst. of Technol., Muroran, Japan

Volume

51

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

For practical use of microwave simulations in industry applications such as high frequency product design, this paper presents a conceptual design of 3-D finite difference time domain (FDTD) dedicated computer with dataflow architecture as one of the portable high performance computing technologies. A basic concept of the dataflow architecture for the FDTD dedicated computer itself was presented already in 2003 for 2-D microwave simulations. Detail design of 3-D FDTD dataflow machine is considered in this paper.

Keywords

computer architecture; finite difference time-domain analysis; parallel processing; special purpose computers; 2-D microwave simulations; 3-D FDTD dataflow machine; 3-D FDTD dedicated computer; 3-D finite difference time domain dedicated computer; dataflow architecture; high performance microwave simulation; portable high performance computing technologies; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computers; Finite difference methods; Hardware; Numerical models; Time-domain analysis; Dedicated computer; FPGA; finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; high performance computation; microwave simulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2014.2355251

Filename

7093508