Hardware acceleration of the 3D finite-difference time-domain method

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 77-80

  Durbano, James P ^a   Humphrey, John R ^b   Ortiz, Fernando E ^b   Curt, Petersen F ^b   Prather, Dennis W ^b   Mirotznik, Mark S ^c  

^a EM PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Catholic University of America ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA TRANSFER; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SUPERCOMPUTERS; THROUGHPUT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC (CEM) SOLVERS; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION (EDA) TOOLS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 4544245049     PISSN: 15223965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/aps.2004.1329557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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