Title :
PARASPICE: a parallel circuit simulator for shared-memory multiprocessors
Author :
Yang, Gung-Chung
Author_Institution :
Center for Supercomput. Res. & Dev., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
A general approach to parallelizing standard circuit simulators on shared-memory multiprocessors is described. The approach extracts parallel tasks at the algorithmic level for each compute-intensive module and therefore is suitable for a wide range of shared-memory multiprocessors. The implementation of the approach in SPICE2 resulted in a portable parallel direct circuit simulator, PARASPICE. The superior performance of PARASPICE is demonstrated on an 8-CE Alliant FX/80 using a number of benchmark circuits
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; parallel algorithms; performance evaluation; PARASPICE; SPICE2; algorithmic level; benchmark circuits; compute-intensive module; parallel circuit simulator; parallel tasks; performance; shared-memory multiprocessors; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Linear systems; Parallel processing; Problem-solving; Research and development; Timing; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1990. Proceedings., 27th ACM/IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-89791-363-9
DOI :
10.1109/DAC.1990.114890
