Large scale RLC circuit analysis using RLCG-MNA formulation

ABSTRACT

A fast method for timing analysis of large scale RLC networks using the RLCG-MNA formulation, which provides good properties for fast matrix solvers, is presented. The proposed method is faster than INDUCTWISE and more general than the RLP algorithm, where INDUCTWISE and RLP algorithm are known as the state-of-art simulation methods. In the numerical example, good performances of the proposed method are illustrated compared with the previous works.

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