Fundamentals of computer-aided circuit simulation
Fundamentals of computer-aided circuit simulation
Efficient large-scale power grid analysis based on preconditioned krylov-subspace iterative methods
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Numerical Initial Value Problems in Ordinary Differential Equations
Numerical Initial Value Problems in Ordinary Differential Equations
Computer Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations and Differential-Algebraic Equations
Computer Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations and Differential-Algebraic Equations
Simulation Techniques and Solutions for Mixed-Signal Coupling in Integrated Circuits
Simulation Techniques and Solutions for Mixed-Signal Coupling in Integrated Circuits
Fast analysis and optimization of power/ground networks
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Simulation approaches for strongly coupled interconnect systems
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
PRIMA: passive reduced-order interconnect macromodeling algorithm
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
TETA: transistor-level waveform evaluation for timing analysis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 2
HiSIM: hierarchical interconnect-centric circuit simulator
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
ASP-DAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
An unconditional stable general operator splitting method for transistor level transient analysis
ASP-DAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Efficient transient simulation for transistor-level analysis
Proceedings of the 2005 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Fast-yet-accurate PVT simulation by combined direct and iterative methods
ICCAD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
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We propose a new circuit analysis method, namelySemi-Implicit Linear-Centric Analysis (SILCA), for efficientSPICE-accurate transient simulation of deep-submicron VLSIcircuits with strong parasitic coupling effects introduced byinterconnect lines, common substrate, power/ground networks, etc.SILCA is based on two linear-centric techniques. First, a new semi-implicititerative numerical integration scheme is developed, whichapplies dynamic time step control accounting for stiff systems andmeanwhile keeps constant equivalent conductance forcapacitor/inductor companion models. Its convergence and stabilityproperties are characterized. Second, to achieve constant linearizedconductance for nonlinear devices during nonlinear iterationprocess, a successive variable chord method is introduced as analternative of the Newton-Raphson method and the rank-one updatetechnique is implemented for fast LU factorization. With thesetechniques, SILCA reduces the number and cost of required LUfactorizations dramatically. Experimental results on substrate andpower/ground networks have demonstrated that SILCA yieldsSPICE-like accuracy with an over 80X reduction in LUfactorization cost, and an about 20X overall CPU time speedup overSPICE3 for circuits with tens of thousands elements, and theefficiency increases further with the size of a circuit.