Parallel Spice?


To ng-spice@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it
From Matt Ettus <matt@ettus.COM>
Date Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:22:43 -0700
Delivered-To mailing list ng-spice@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it
Mailing-List contact ng-spice-help@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it; run by ezmlm
Reply-To ng-spice@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it


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

Partial thread listing: