A Massively Parallel Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Device Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 1201-1209

  Webber, Donald M ^a   Tomacruz, Eric ^a   Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Alberto ^a   Guerrieri, Roberto ^b   Toyabe, Toru ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - PARALLEL PROCESSING; COMPUTERS, SUPERCOMPUTER; DIFFUSION - COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ITERATIVE METHODS;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT SQUARED ITERATION; CONNECTION MACHINE; MASSIVELY PARALLEL ALGORITHM; MATRIX SOLUTION METHODS; PARTITIONED NATURAL ORDERING;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0026219562     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: 19374151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.85767     Document Type: Article

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