Parallel Sparse Direct Solver for Integrated Circuit Simulation
This book describes algorithmic methods and parallelization techniques to design a parallel sparse direct solver which is specifically targeted at integrated circuit simulation problems. The authors describe a complete flow and detailed parallel algorithm
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allel Sparse Direct Solver for Integrated Circuit Simulation
Parallel Sparse Direct Solver for Integrated Circuit Simulation
Xiaoming Chen Yu Wang Huazhong Yang •
Parallel Sparse Direct Solver for Integrated Circuit Simulation
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Yu Wang Tsinghua University Beijing China
Xiaoming Chen Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN USA
Huazhong Yang Tsinghua University Beijing China
and Tsinghua University Beijing China
ISBN 978-3-319-53428-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53429-9
ISBN 978-3-319-53429-9
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Preface
With the advances in the scale and complexity of modern integrated circuits (ICs), Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE) based circuit simulators are facing performance challenges, especially for post-layout simulations. Advances in semiconductor technologies have greatly promoted the development of parallel computers, and, hence, parallelization has become a promising approach to accelerate circuit simulations. Parallel circuit simulation has been a popular research topic for a few decades since the invention of SPICE. The sparse direct solver implemented by sparse lower–upper (LU) factorization is the biggest bottleneck in modern full SPICE-accurate IC simulations, since it is extremely difficult to parallelize. This is a practical challenge which both academia and industry are facing. This book describes algorithmic methods and parallelization techniques that aim to realize a parallel sparse direct solver named NICSLU (NICS is
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