IRSIM: an incremental MOS switch-level simulator
DAC '89 Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
iSMILE: a novel circuit simulation program with emphasis on new device model development
DAC '89 Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Digital integrated circuits: a design perspective
Digital integrated circuits: a design perspective
Reduced-order modeling of large passive linear circuits by means of the SYPVL algorithm
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design of optoelectronic integrated circuits and systems
Computer-aided design of optoelectronic integrated circuits and systems
Structured design of microelectromechanical systems
DAC '97 Proceedings of the 34th annual Design Automation Conference
Methodology for the Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems
Methodology for the Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems
Piecewise Linear Modeling and Analysis
Piecewise Linear Modeling and Analysis
Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design
Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design
PRIMA: passive reduced-order interconnect macromodeling algorithm
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Efficient linear circuit analysis by Pade approximation via the Lanczos process
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
A fast optical propagation technique for modeling micro-optical systems
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Performance Simulation of a Microwave Micro-Electromechanical System Shunt Switch Using Chatoyant
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
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This paper describes a computationally efficient method to simulate mixed-domain systems under the requirements of a system-level framework. The approach is the combined use of Modified Nodal Analysis (MNA) for the representation of a mixed-technology device and piecewise linear (PWL) techniques to overcome the costly numerical evaluation found in conventional circuit or device simulators. This approach makes the simulation computationally fast, as well as more stable when compared with traditional circuit simulation. The PWL solver, based in the frequency domain, is more robust to inconsistencies in initial conditions and impulse changes when compared to integration based solvers in the time domain. The advantage of this method is that the same solver enables the integration of multi-domain devices (e.g., electrical, optical, and mechanical) in the same simulation framework. The use of this technique for the simulation of multi-domain systems has proven to give better performance in simulation time when compared to traditional circuit simulators with a relatively small decrease in the level of accuracy. Comparisons with traditional solvers, such as SPICE, show two to three orders of magnitude speedup with less than 5% relative error. The ability to adjust the level of accuracy, either by varying the sampling rate or the number of regions of operation in the models, allows for both computationally fast and in-depth analysis in the same CAD framework.