Title :
Parallelizable stable explicit numerical integration for efficient circuit simulation
Author :
Dong, Wei ; Li, Peng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
This work exploits the recently developed telescopic projective numerical integration method for efficient parallel circuit simulation. Stable explicit numerical integration is achieved by adopting an explicit inner integrator (e.g. forward Euler) in a multi-level telescopic projective framework, thereby addressing the well-known stability limitation of many explicit numerical integration methods. In the presented approach, the effective time step of the entire multi-level integration is no longer limited by the smallest time constant of the circuit so as to safeguard stability. Rather, it is controlled solely by the accuracy requirement. This makes it possible to explore the natural parallelizability of such explicit integration method for parallel circuit simulation. We demonstrate the potential of the presented approach and its parallel implementation on multi-core machines with encouraging initial results.
Keywords :
circuit simulation; integrated circuit design; integration; explicit inner integrator; forward Euler; parallel circuit simulation; parallelizable stable explicit numerical integration; stability limitation; telescopic projective numerical integration; Automotive engineering; Circuit simulation; Clocks; Design optimization; Dynamic scheduling; Job shop scheduling; Protocols; Research and development; Synchronization; Vehicle dynamics; Explicit Numerical Integration; Parallel Computing; Transient Simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 2009. DAC '09. 46th ACM/IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-6055-8497-3