A new method of transient fault simulation uses dc bias grouping of faulty circuits and decreases the number of Newton-Raphson iterations needed to reach a solution. An experimental tool implementing this method achieves a speedup of 20% to 30% on a flat netlist.
Citation:
Nur Engin, Hans G. Kerkhoff, "Fast Fault Simulation for Nonlinear Analog Circuits," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 40-47, Mar./Apr. 2003, doi:10.1109/MDT.2003.1188261 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||