A fast method of moments solver for efficient parameter extraction of MCMs

  • Authors:
  • Sharad Kapur;Jinsong Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ;Department of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

  • Venue:
  • DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The Method of Moments (MoM) is often effectively used inthe extraction of passive components in modeling integratedcircuits and MCM packaging. MoM extraction, however,involves solving a dense system of linear equations, and using direct factorization methods can be prohibitive for large problems. In this paper, we present a Fast Method of Moments Solver (FMMS) for the rapid solution of such linear systems. Our algorithm exploits the fact that the integral equation kernels are locally "smooth" and can be dramatically compressed via the singular value decomposition(SVD). This greatly speeds up the matrix-vector products ina Krylov-subspace iterative algorithm (e.g., GMRES). Wedemonstrate the efficiency and exibility of our scheme forthe modeling of embedded inductors in MCM-D. Results arepresented to show that the method isaccurate and can betwo orders of magnitude faster than Gaussian eliminationand one order of magnitude faster than standard iterative schemes.