A parallel implementation of an electrothermal simulation for gaas mesfet devices

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

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 308-316

  Tsang Ping, Chow Sit ^a,b   Snowden, Christopher M ^a   Barry, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Filtronic Comtek (UK) Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MESFET DEVICES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TRANSPUTERS;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ARCHITECTURES; ELECTROTHERMAL SIMULATION; MULTIPLE INSTRUCTIONS MULTIPLE DATA; SEMICONDUCTOR EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ENERGY TRANSPORT;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 0030109551     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.489101     Document Type: Article

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