Title :
Accelerated waveform methods for parallel transient simulation of semiconductor devices
Author :
Reichelt, M.W. ; Lumsdaine, A. ; White, J.K.
Author_Institution :
MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we compare accelerated waveform relaxation algorithms to pointwise methods for the transient simulation of semiconductor devices on parallel machines. Experimental results are presented for simulations on small clusters of workstations and on an Intel iPSC/860. The results show that accelerated waveform methods are competitive with standard pointwise methods on serial machines, but are significantly faster on loosely-coupled MIMD machines.
Keywords :
semiconductor device models; Intel iPSC/860; accelerated waveform methods; loosely-coupled MIMD machines; parallel machines; parallel transient simulation; pointwise methods; semiconductor devices; small clusters of workstations; standard pointwise methods; Acceleration; Charge carrier processes; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Difference equations; Differential algebraic equations; Differential equations; Poisson equations; Semiconductor devices;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Design, 1993. ICCAD-93. Digest of Technical Papers., 1993 IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4490-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAD.1993.580068
