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An unconditional stable general operator splitting method for transistor level transient analysis
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Source Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 2006 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference table of contents
Yokohama, Japan
SESSION: Advanced circuit simulation table of contents
Pages: 428 - 433  
Year of Publication: 2006
ISBN:0-7803-9451-8
Authors
Zhengyong Zhu  University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Rui Shi  University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Chung-Kuan Cheng  University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Ernest S. Kuh  University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Sponsors
: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
IEICE ESS : Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Engineering Sciences Society
IPSJ SIG-SLDM : Information Processing Society of Japan, SIG System LSI Design Methodology
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IEEE Press  Piscataway, NJ, USA
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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we introduce a general operator splitting method for transient simulation of VLSI circuits. The proposed approach generates special partitions of the circuits and alternates the explicit and implicit integrations between the partitions. We prove that the method is unconditionally stable independent of the step size. The splitting scheme greatly reduces the nonzero fill-ins generated in direct methods like LU decomposition. Orders of magnitude speedup over Berkeley SPICE3 is observed for sets of circuits.


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Collaborative Colleagues:
Zhengyong Zhu: colleagues
Rui Shi: colleagues
Chung-Kuan Cheng: colleagues
Ernest S. Kuh: colleagues