Title :
DiPaCS: a new concept for parallel circuit simulation
Author :
Klinger, Volkhard
Author_Institution :
AB Tech. Inf. 2, Tech. Univ. Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Abstract :
The DiPaCS system, a distributed parallel circuit simulator implementable on multicomputer systems is introduced. Since high complexity and increasing problems in simulating integrated circuits imply an enormous computational expenditure we have tried to reduce the amount of simulation time by parallel processing. A parallel iterative method is presented which is embedded in the concept of a hierarchical circuit simulator where the problem inherent parallelism is used for speeding up purposes
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; integrated circuit layout; iterative methods; parallel machines; parallel programming; DiPaCS system; distributed parallel circuit simulator; hierarchical circuit simulator; integrated circuit simulation; multicomputer systems; parallel circuit simulation; parallel iterative method; parallel processing; Algorithm design and analysis; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Differential algebraic equations; Distributed computing; Nonlinear equations; Parallel processing; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Symposium, 1995., Proceedings of the 28th Annual
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7091-6
DOI :
10.1109/SIMSYM.1995.393596
