Title :
Parallel transient analysis for circuit simulation
Author :
Wever, U. ; Zheng, Q.
Author_Institution :
Corp. Res. & Dev., Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
We discuss the application of domain decomposition methods to circuit simulation. This coarse grain parallelization guarantees low communication and this achieves good speedup results on a workstation cluster. The communication can be reduced to a minimum, especially with multilevel Newton methods and iteration latency techniques. The application of these techniques make our parallel implementation very well suited for a workstation cluster with low communication performance
Keywords :
Newton method; circuit CAD; circuit analysis computing; engineering workstations; local area networks; parallel algorithms; transient analysis; workstations; circuit simulation; coarse grain parallelization; domain decomposition methods; iteration latency techniques; low communication; multilevel Newton methods; parallel transient analysis; speedup; workstation cluster; Circuit simulation; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Delay; Hardware; Newton method; Research and development; Transient analysis; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7324-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1996.495492
