28th Annual Simulation Symposium
DiPaCS: a new concept for parallel circuit simulation
Santa Barbara, California
April 25-April 28
ISBN: 0-8186-7091-6
The DiPaCS system, a distributed parallel circuit simulator implementable on multicomputer systems is introduced. Since high complexity and increasing problems in simulating integrated circuits imply an enormous computational expenditure we have tried to reduce the amount of simulation time by parallel processing. A parallel iterative method is presented which is embedded in the concept of a hierarchical circuit simulator where the problem inherent parallelism is used for speeding up purposes.
Index Terms:
circuit analysis computing; integrated circuit layout; parallel programming; parallel machines; iterative methods; DiPaCS system; parallel circuit simulation; distributed parallel circuit simulator; multicomputer systems; integrated circuit simulation; parallel processing; parallel iterative method; hierarchical circuit simulator
Citation:
V. Klinger, "DiPaCS: a new concept for parallel circuit simulation," ss, pp.32, 28th Annual Simulation Symposium, 1995