Simulation of integrated circuits: Numerical techniques

✍ Scribed by Peter Lory

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 393 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-7177
• DOI: 10.1016/0895-7177(88)90615-2

✦ Synopsis

Relaxation-based techniques for the transient analysis of largescale integrated circuits are promising candidates for a new generation of circuit simulators. The present note investigates the convergence of the discretized waveform relaxation. It is demonstrated that a SOR technique has the potential of beeing significantly faster than the conventional waveform relaxation Gauss-Seidel method. The determination of the optimal relaxation parameter is decisive and is discussed for the case of a general linear model problem.