IES3: a fast integral equation solver for efficient 3-dimensional extraction

  • Authors:
  • Sharad Kapur;David E. Long

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ;Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ICCAD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Integral equation techniques are often used to extract models of integrated circuit structures. This extraction involves solving a dense system of linear equations, and using direct solution methods is prohibitive for large problems. In this paper, we present IES/sup 3/ (pronounced "ice cube"), a fast Integral Equation Solver for three-dimensional problems with arbitrary kernels. Extraction methods based on IES/sup 3/ are substantially more efficient than existing multipole-based approaches.