Accelerating harmonic balance simulation using efficient parallelizable hierarchical preconditioning

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 436-439

  Dong, Wei ^a   Li, Peng ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic balance; MPI; Parallelization; Preconditioning; Simulation

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC BALANCE; PARALLELIZATION; PRECONDITIONING;

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG CIRCUITS; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MESSAGE PASSING;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547274937     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2007.375203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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