NDLI: Towards efficient SPICE-accurate nonlinear circuit simulation with on-the-fly support-circuit preconditioners

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xueqian Zhao Zhuo Feng
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Department of ECE, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, 49931 (Xueqian Zhao; Zhuo Feng)
Abstract	SPICE-accurate simulation of present-day large-scale nonlinear integrated circuit (IC) systems with millions of linear/nonlinear components can be prohibitively expensive, and thus extremely challenging. In this paper, we present a novel support-circuit preconditioning (SCP) technique for tackling large-scale nonlinear circuit simulations by exploiting sparsified graphs of a given circuit network. By extracting support graphs (SGs) from the original linear circuit networks, and combining them with nonlinear devices, support-circuit preconditioner can be efficiently computed using existing matrix solvers, allowing for on-the-fly updates during transient simulations when adopted in Krylov-subspace iterative solvers. Experimental results for a variety of large-scale circuit designs show that the proposed method achieves up to 22μ speedups in solving the matrices involved in DC and transient (TR) simulations, and up to 8μ reduction in memory usage, when compared with the simulator powered by the state-of-the-art direct solver KLU.
Starting Page	1119
Ending Page	1124
File Size	658936
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450311991
ISSN	0738100X
e-ISBN	9781450311991
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-06-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Integrated circuit modeling Nonlinear circuits Transient analysis Sparse matrices Runtime System-on-a-chip Iterative methods Preconditioner Transient Simulation Iterative Methods
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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