Title : 
An efficient method for transient simulation of high-speed interconnects with nonlinear terminations
         
        
            Author : 
Farhan, Mohammad ; Gad, Emad ; Nakhla, Michel ; Achar, Ramachandra
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents a new method for a circuit-based transient simulation of large interconnects circuits terminated with nonlinear devices. The proposed method is based on high-order A-stable integration methods, known as Obreshkov-formula. The new method exploits the structure of the matrices resulting from applying Obreshkov-formula to achieve very high speedups. A numerical example is presented that shows the performance and accuracy of the proposed method.
         
        
            Keywords : 
circuit simulation; integrated circuit interconnections; Obreshkov formula; circuit-based transient simulation; high-order A-stable integration method; high-speed interconnect transient simulation; nonlinear device; nonlinear termination; Approximation methods; Integrated circuit interconnections; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Microwave circuits; Transient analysis; Vectors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS), 2012 IEEE 21st Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Tempe, AZ
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-2539-4
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-2537-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EPEPS.2012.6457856