Parallel Spice?
From DACafe...
Abstract:
This paper discusses the issues related to speeding up circuit simulation
through various algorithmic approaches. It then focuses on the
parallelization of a spice 3 based circuit simulator, namely Silvaco's
SmartSpice. It describes alternatives to solving the problems related to an
efficient implementation of Parallel SmartSpice and the choices that have
been made. The parallelization of both the model evaluation and the sparse
linear solver are addressed, and figures are included to show the speedup
gained on the MCNC benchmark suite.
There is a link to the full paper at
http://www.dacafe.com/DACafe/TECHNICAL/Papers/abs04.html
unfortunately, its more marketing and results than real info. Is there any
literature out there on parallelizing spice?
Matt
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