Parallel Sparse Direct Solver for Integrated Circuit Simulation

✍ Scribed by Xiaoming Chen, Yu Wang, Huazhong Yang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 137
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 algorithms of the sparse direct solver. They also show how to improve the performance by simple but effective numerical techniques. The sparse direct solver techniques described can be applied to any SPICE-like integrated circuit simulator and have been proven to be high-performance in actual circuit simulation. Readers will benefit from the state-of-the-art parallel integrated circuit simulation techniques described in this book, especially the latest parallel sparse matrix solution techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Related Work....Pages 13-41
Overall Solver Flow....Pages 43-62
Parallel Sparse Left-Looking Algorithm....Pages 63-78
Improvement Techniques....Pages 79-98
Test Results....Pages 99-116
Performance Model....Pages 117-124
Conclusions....Pages 125-126
Back Matter....Pages 127-129

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems;Processor Architectures;Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation