Simulation of bipolar VLSI circuits using overlapped relaxation technique

Author

Mokari, M.E. ; Fang, Wen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio Univ., Athens, OH, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

228

Abstract

A fast and robust overlapped waveform relaxation (OWR) algorithm is presented for transient simulation of bipolar VLSI circuits. From the simulation results, it can be concluded that by using the OWR algorithm, the speedup can be two orders of magnitude compared to direct SPICE-like methods for very large circuits. Four representative examples, including combinational and sequential digital circuits as well as an analog bipolar circuit, are included. It is shown that the OWR algorithm is twice as fast as the waveform relaxation algorithm

Keywords

VLSI; bipolar integrated circuits; circuit analysis computing; digital integrated circuits; linear integrated circuits; relaxation theory; semiconductor device models; transient response; OWR algorithm; analog bipolar circuit; bipolar VLSI circuits; combinational digital circuits; overlapped relaxation technique; sequential digital circuits; transient simulation; very large circuits; waveform relaxation; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Convergence; Coupling circuits; Equations; Partitioning algorithms; Robustness; Very large scale integration; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 1992., Proceedings of the 1992

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0727-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.1992.274045

Filename

274045